Digital display with NVidia card?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 3/4/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >> I have an NVidia FX 5500 and just scrounged up a Samsung SyncMaster 930B
> >> LCD monitor.  I thought I'd try using the digital output of the card, but
> >> I'm having some issues:
> >>
> >> (1) The VCs don't display during startup.
> >>
> >> (2) The X server comes up displaying 800x600.  I don't seem to be able to
> >> change it using system-confog-display.  I can select 1280x1024, but when I
> >> log out, I get a message on the display about non-optimal mode and when the
> >> X server starts, it's in 800x600 again.
> >>
> >> The bahavior is the same whether I use the nv driver or the binary nividia
> >> driver.
> >>
> >> How can I solve these issues?  Or am I stuck with analog mode?
> >
> > I don't know what a "VC" is in 1.
>
> Virtual console.  I.e., no boot messages on startup.  Also, no rhgb.
>
> >
> > However, it may be helpful to post your Xorg.0.log.
>
> Good point.  See attached log for the nv driver.

(II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (exceeds panel dimensions)

I'll guess that the EDID in your display has bogus information about
its dimensions.

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