[nflug] Flat Panel LCD Monitors - SOLVED

[Cyber Source]

David Mangani wrote:
> 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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>
hmmm, well the only difference there is then between yours and mine is
I'm on Dapper and your on Edgy right (with slight card differences)?
Yours was pretty much automatic and mine had to be tweaked a little.
Difference in x versions then I would presume or the slight differences
in the cards EDID capabilities.
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