NVIDIA Geforce 7300 SE insane refresh rates
 

Hey guys, I've got a problem with my nvidia, everytime I change resolution on ANY Linux game, my monitor stops working due to a 8.173 KHz signal when the max is 75 Hz.

Changing resolution on fedora's desktop (FC8) gives me no trouble,it lets me choose between 50 and 58 Hz which is acceptable. Nvidia xconfig lets me choose between 75 Hz (current) 60 Hz and auto

I've got the latest NVIDIA drivers along with nvidia-kmod for my current kernel (2.6.25.14-69.fc8)

I'll attach my xorg.conf which seems to be okay, but I've noticed a little thing, in windows, I can only choose between 16 bit and 32 bit colour, I can't set it to 24 bit, all Linux game's default and max in my computer are 24 bit, maybe it's normal but I'm not sure...

Thanks in advance! :)

--------------------------------XORG.CONF----------------------------------
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
-----------------------------XORG.CONF END------------------------------

this is my xorg.conf file with the same Nvidia driver running on Slackware-12.1

what i find odd about yours is this:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

mine just loads it as a module in the modules section (Load "glx") you might try editing by hand using mine as a refrence if it is not too much of a task...


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder57) Thu Jul 17 #18:39:19 PDT 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Ok I'll give it a try and tell you what later

thanks!

Didn't work, and disabled AIGLX :S

I think that's because glx and AIGLX aren't exactly the same, I don't know how to explain it but you'll find references on the internet.

Thanks for trying anyway :)

What kind of monitor did you use ? CRT ,TFT ,LCD , TFT LCD.
AS you know the monitor type is also important for the refresh rate and for the color depth

I got a LCD but doesn't matter now because I solved it!

i googled a bit about how to set refresh rates on xorg.conf and I only had to put _60 next to each resolution on section modes, which tells the program to use 60 Hz mode, if not, doesn't know what refresh rate to use

Thanks everyone for taking your time!