Livna nVidia problems...

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/23/07, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > This is inaccurate.  The driver always tries to obtain the correct
> > information from the EDID in your display device.  Now if your display
> > device has no EDID, or the EDID is broken in some way, then the driver
> > is going to fall back to safe defaults, which can still be overridden.
>
> How come then the nv found them find but the nvidia driver didn't ?

I wouldn't know unless you post the X logs from each driver.  My best
guess is that the nv driver just falls back to different defaults than
the nvidia driver.