X windows and gdm on Dell/fedora
Jed
smaje02 at optonline.net
Sun Dec 14 22:53:38 UTC 2003
Jed wrote:
> dmcglone at san.rr.com wrote:
>
>> Two questions.
>>
>> 1) I'm having great problems getting a new Dell Dimension 8300 (newly
>> isntalled
>> Fedora Core) to run X windows (gnome). It has a Nvidia GEForceFx 5200
>> card and
>> a Dell 1703 FPt flat panel monitor. When I try to run it I get a
>> "Can't Display
>> This Mode" message. I've changed the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines
>> in the
>> XF86Config file to match those in the monitor's manual, but that
>> didn't help.
>> I've also made sure the mode line matches the monitor's capabilities.
>>
>> I only have the default (nv) driver for the card, but I think I'd get
>> some kind
>> of image even with that. So far no luck. Can anyone help?
>>
>> 2) That brings up question 2: how do I keep the system from trying
>> to run gdm
>> on startup. I'm able get out of it by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace,
>> but I have
>> to that repeatedly and it's very annoying. I've looked through the
>> /etc/rc.d
>> directory but I can't see what's trying to run gdm.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Mark Mcglone
>> dmcglone at san.rr.com
>>
>>
>>
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> I am running a Nvidia card with a Sony flatpanel connected to the DVI
> interface. I get that message when I dont tell the nv driver to use
> the DVI output instead of the default VGA.
> Here are the monitor and video sections from my XF86config file.
>
> ======================
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "SDM-X93"
> DisplaySize 380 300
> HorizSync 28.0 - 65.0
> VertRefresh 57.0 - 63.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
> Option "NoLogo" "true"
> Option "RenderAccel" "true"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
> EndSection
> =================
>
> Here DFP tells the driver to use the Digtal Flat Panel. I didnt have
> to change anything with the HorizSync and VertRefresh, I'd just make
> sure they are within you monitors specs. You shouldnt have to mess
> with the mode line unless you are doing some funny resolution. I only
> had to do this with my Matrox Card on my Samsung DLP to get it to run
> at a native 1280x720 resolition.
>
>
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whoops. Im using the proprietary driver. sorry. If you can connect to
your LCD via vga you might have a chance.
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