video resolution with NVIDIA

Richard F. Hobson linux at rhobson.com
Fri Oct 8 06:07:45 UTC 2004


Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I have the latest driver from nvidia,
restarted X and I do receive the NVidia splash screen, indicating the
nividia driver is the one in service.

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:36, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Monday 04 October 2004 11:18, Richard F. Hobson wrote:
> > After updating my RH9 installation to the latest kernel (last one
> > distributed) I was no longer able to get a screen resolution higher than
> > 800X600.  I had to recompile the nvidia driver after installing the new
> > kernel.  Attached is a video-section excerpt from the XF86Config file.
> > The resolution indicated in the file is the one I was using before, so I
> > know the hardware supports it.  Any suggestions on how to restore higher
> > resolution with this video card? (Nvidia Gforce 440)
> 
> Did you get the latest nvidia driver from their website? 
> Did you restart X after compiling the nvidia kernal module?
> 
> When starting X with nvidia driver, did you get Nvidia splash screen, 
> indicating that you're indeed using nvidia driver ?
> 
> RDB




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