Hi Everyone,
I have the NVidia driver from nvidia.com installed on my system running debian 2.4.23 with grub 0.93 on my dell inspiron 5150. I am running XFree86-4.3.0.1. Also I am a newbie to linux but a long time solaris user.
Cant seem to get this to work - when I try to set my resolution, I just go into
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
and changed all the 1600x1200 to 1280x1024:
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVidia64"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Then i restarted X, and after I log back in, my settings from xdpyinfo still says 800x600 resolution!!! This i don't understand!
Now it wont let me go about 800x600 tho the card is probably one of the better cards you can purchases with a dell laptop - so I doubt that the 800x600 is the total resolution i can get - i had a junky old sony viao with the default video and was able to turn resolution up to 1280x1024, why my dell cant i dunno.
Thanks for any suggestions!
-A