[nflug] Flat Panel LCD Monitors - SOLVED

[David Mangani]

Congrats on the monitor! I think mine looks better using the DVI
input. Just an FYI, My puter is also still on the AGP bus, my new card
is a GF6200 AGP 8x.  I didn't seem super relavant in our earlier
thread, but maybe for future reference. I noticed that your Bus ID
also lists yours as PCI just as mine did.

On 1/30/07, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> Robert Meyer wrote:
> > Hmmm... How about this one:
> >
> >         Option "UseDisplayDevice"       "DFP"
> >         Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices"   "CRT,TV"
> >         Option "ModeValidation"         "NoMaxPClkCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck"That just might do the trick...
> >
> > Some hotshot... Here's his ancient Chinese secret...
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for the tip Bob, close, but here is what I did. Your tip
> definitely told me that I should dig into the manual for the nvidia
> driver and see some options. I could not use the above because I do an
> independent split of my X for my Myth to run on my TV. So some poking in
> the nvidia manual I found "Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "boolean"" that
> forces the initialization of the xserver to use the exact timings
> specified in the mode line, instead of the closest mode it gets from
> EDID. I also used the option "Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP" (and "TV"
> respectively), versus the "UseDisplayDevice" option as the former
> overrides what the xserver detects for the display devices. So, here is
> an excerpt of my xorg file;
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "NVIDIA0"
>         Driver          "nvidia"
>         Screen          0
>         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Option          "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
>         Option          "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "NVIDIA1"
>         Driver          "nvidia"
>         Screen          1
>         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Option          "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
> EndSection
>
> And Voila! My monitor is now doing 1680x1050 display using DVI on my AGP
> GeForce4 Card!
> It would seem this was only necessary because of AGP, As I have done
> multiple installs of high resolutions on flat panels using PCIE cards
> with no tweaking of X.
> Thanks again for the reminder to RTFM!
>
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