GF FX 5500 nVidia - Resolution Limitation on CRT-0 - Ubuntu 8.04LTS - i386

Hi All,
This is my first post in here. I am an Ex-Windows chap. I have in the
past 'tested' various Linux OS's, I use the term loosely, I installed them
and if they worked I usually grew to hate them in a few weeks for the
difficulties they presented too me (perhaps these are due to my own
limitations), and thus they were removed and reversion to Win occurred
Post-Haste. Prior to that I was a Mac man for some years, and before that
C64, before that I was 8 so I don't know...

At any rate now I have the introduction over with on to the meat of why I am
posting here. I am at that point where it is going in the bin again and
Windows is going back on. I have been fart assing around for days trying to
get my video card installed. I finally got my head around what I had to do
and it worked. This has now presented another issue, I connect this
particular machine direct to my NEC Widescreen, via the VGA D-Sub inputs,
when I do this the screen res is only 640x480. Now if I connect via the RCA
jack then the res goes up and the quality goes to poo, which is normal I
think.

What I am asking is does the video card receive some sort of info from the
TV telling it what res to use. I have been piss farting around various
modelines and have restored my xconf file more times than I can remember.

Now if it is transmitting some crap telling my card to run low, how can I
override it? It worked fine at all sorts of crazy resolutions in Windows.

Many thanks for any forthcoming advice.

Richard.

Richard Lane-Williams wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi All,
> This is my first post in here. I am an Ex-Windows chap. I have in the
> past 'tested' various Linux OS's, I use the term loosely, I installed them
> and if they worked I usually grew to hate them in a few weeks for the
> difficulties they presented too me (perhaps these are due to my own
> limitations), and thus they were removed and reversion to Win occurred
> Post-Haste. Prior to that I was a Mac man for some years, and before that
> C64, before that I was 8 so I don't know...
>
> At any rate now I have the introduction over with on to the meat of why I am
> posting here. I am at that point where it is going in the bin again and
> Windows is going back on. I have been fart assing around for days trying to
> get my video card installed. I finally got my head around what I had to do
> and it worked. This has now presented another issue, I connect this
> particular machine direct to my NEC Widescreen, via the VGA D-Sub inputs,
> when I do this the screen res is only 640x480. Now if I connect via the RCA
> jack then the res goes up and the quality goes to poo, which is normal I
> think.
>
> What I am asking is does the video card receive some sort of info from the
> TV telling it what res to use. I have been piss farting around various
> modelines and have restored my xconf file more times than I can remember.
>
> Now if it is transmitting some crap telling my card to run low, how can I
> override it? It worked fine at all sorts of crazy resolutions in Windows.
>
> Many thanks for any forthcoming advice.[/color]

Post the contents of your xorg.conf file.

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Mark Warner
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