On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 10:37:58PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
Charles Curley wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 09:15:01PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>>I received a Dell 20 inch monitor for Christmas. It's native resolution
>>is 1680x1050. Looking at my Xorg.0.log file, I find these lines:
>>
>>(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of
range)
>>(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of
range)
>
>
>
>>Do these lines mean my video card will not support this resolution or
>>that I need to do some configuration to get the card to support this
>>resolution or something else entirely?
>
>Have you run system-config-display (as root)? It should detect the new
>monitor and let you make whatever adjustments seem appropriate.
>
>Just in case, back up /etc/X11/xorg.conf before you do so. Just in
>case.
>
>
system-config-display fails with a host of python error messages. Can
you tell me how to fix that?
I cannot. I suspect that a copy of the error messages would help
someone more knowledgeable than I. You might also indicate which
drivers you are using, with version numbers.
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