Nvidia Drivers

[Shawn Christopher]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 16:28 +1100, Cef wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:36, Shawn Christopher wrote:
> > I have a PNY Technologies Verto GeForce FX 5200 PCI card (Nvidia Clone?)
> > with 128MB's DDR Ram however no matter how I install the Nvidia drivers
> > I cannot get it to work. I have tried the instructions that are on the
> > Nvidia website, and the Forums and am unable to do so. Everytime I tried
> > to do so it always comes back as Unable to start X would you like to
> > look at the log. It says no screens found HOWEVER I have the Nvidia
> > driver loaded and nvidia is listed in the driver location. I also tried
> > nv and that didn't work either.
> 
> Check the logs in /var/log/ [1]..
> 
> Look for lines like the following:
> 
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at  8 bpp: 400 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 400 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 400 MHz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not probing EDIDs.
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Generic Monitor: Using hsync range of 29.00-57.00 kHz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Generic Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 43.00-60.00 Hz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Clock range:  12.00 to 400.00 MHz
> 
> Now you may have something mentioning that the card probed EDID's (unlike mine 
> above): The drivers usually do this, and in most setups, this works fine. The 
> driver uses the intersection of the details returned from EDID, and what is 
> specified in the config [2].
> 
> eg: If you specify the hsync (HorizSync in the Monitor section of the config 
> [2]) goes from 45-60, and EDID specifies that the monitor can use a hsync of 
> 55-65, then the driver will only allow you to use a hsync of 55-60.
> 
> If this returns nothing, or just one fixed value, then it may not work. You 
> could either modify the config to increase the HorizSync setting, or, if the 
> EDID settings returned by the driver are just plain wrong, you can add 
> 'Option "IgnoreEDID"' to the config [2] in the monitor section.
> 
> If you're not sure, perhaps you could put the log online somewhere, and get 
> someone to have a look. Please do not attach the log to your reply - not 
> everyone wants to see your log file.
> 
> 1 - For XFree86 (the default for 4.10 aka Warty) the log is named 
> XFree86.0.log, and for Xorg (the default for 5.04 aka Hoary) the log is named 
> Xorg.0.log
> 
> 2- For XFree86, the config is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, while for Xorg, the 
> config is in /etc/X11/Xorg.conf
> 
> -- 
>  Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net
> 

Thanks for your reply and maybe I am going to speak outa my rear when I
say this but I am running Hoary so I am using Xorg not XFree86 however I
did have a look and seen xorg.0.log and xorg.8.log however both logs had
nothing that looked like the lines you have. and when I had the Nvidia
set as my driver it didn't post a log? However whenever I tried the nv
and the vesa (only cause the X wiki error page told me to) did it save
logs? Maybe my card isn't supported? I am halfway tempted to call PNY
however I think they will laugh at me if they ask what Kernel options I
have enabled and I tell them I dunno. However if anyone can explain it a
little bit more basic for me I'll have a go at anything suggested.

Shawn