Digital display with NVidia card?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 3/4/07, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> 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.

VC = virtual console

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