Digital display with NVidia card?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the card you're using has a VBIOS bug.  You need to talk
>> to whomever manufactured the card, no one here can fix this.
>
> Nope, it's the monitor.  I got another one to try and it works fine.
>
> Now I need to see if the monitor is still under warranty...
>
> Thanks for everyone's help.

And just to put the final nail in this coffin, Samsung cross-shipped a
refurb replacement under the (3-year) warranty and it works perfectly.

>From Xorg.0.log:

(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5500 at 
PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0):     Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): 135.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (DFP-0): Internal Single Link TMDS
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1280x1024"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1280x960"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1280x800"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1152x864"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "640x480"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (85, 86); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) NVIDIA(0):     option

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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