Out of range is actually a good thing, that means your driver is probably loaded correctly.
You just need to find the correct settings for your display.
Your manual should have these, I had to go do a google search to find my monitor manual, then I found the correct settings.
Here is a quick tutorial on the xorg, probably good for anyone to do if you are not understanding xorg.conf file.
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout":
If you notice I change it to say "single head configuration"
You can call this anything you want, as long as you call it correctly below.
Code:
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Files":
Be careful here,in the files section that is, you want to make sure your ModulePath is pointing to the location your nvidia kernal module's had been built to. So, for my machine its in "xorg" (dont change this if its already set, if you have troubles with that path, try the "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/", you must understand, linux has been trying on every release to get rid of this location.
On FC5+ I think everything should be in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/
Check the folder if you are not sure, if you see the nvidia files in the path, then use that path.
Code:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "Module":
All the above stuff is standard, you should not need to change it.
Make sure "dri" is not their, but you should already know that since you read the nvidia readme.txt (right
Code:
Section "Monitor"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "VSPF790"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "ViewSonic PF790"
HorizSync 30.0 - 97.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 180.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
@sreraku ...
This is section is for you, see above where it says monitor, then the identifier says "VSPF790"
This is the monitor ID that will be used with the device driver below.
So you need two of these with different names for each monitor, those are my settings, but be sure to use yours.
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "default"
VendorName "nv"
Driver "nv"
EndSection
Section "Device"
This one is sometimes called: Video0 or something like that, I changed it to "default"
Again, if you make a change up here, you need to make the change down below too...
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Single CRT"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "nVidia Corporation NV28GL [Quadro4 980 XGL]"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT-1"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: 1280x1024 +0+0"
Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "CIOverlay" "On"
Option "DPI" "85x85"
# Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768"
EndSection
Section "Device":
This section is called "Single CRT" this is what I use when my nvidia driver loads my first display...
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Duel Display"
VendorName "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "TwinView"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30.00-82.00"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "CIOverlay" "On"
Option "CursorShadow" "Off"
Option "NvAgp" "3"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50.00-85.00"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768"
Option "DPI" "85x85"
EndSection
Section "Device":
Identifier "Duel Display":
Ok, now this is what you need to pay attention too, see this section, I have called it "Duel Display"
This now allows me to use "Duel Display" on my machine, I could call this "My Display" or anything else, as long as I call it the same when I used the driver below.
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
# Device "default" #use standard xorg nv drivers
Device "Single CRT" #use custom nvidia drivers
#Enable this for duel display settings
#Device "Dual Display" #Duel Display settings, see settings above
Monitor "VSPF790" #notice VSPF790 matches the ID above...
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"
#Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT-1"
#Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: 1280x1024 +0+0"
#Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
#Option "Composite" "Disable"
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
#Option "NvAGP" "3"
#Option "CIOverlay" "On"
#Option "DPI" "85x85"
#Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768"
#Option "DPI" "85x85"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
# Device "default" #use standard xorg nv drivers
Device "Single CRT" #use custom nvidia drivers
#Enable this for duel display settings
#Device "Dual Display" #Duel Display settings, see settings above
Monitor "VSPF790" #notice VSPF790 matches the ID above...
This section is the reason for me doing this, you can change out the "default"
and "Single CRT", "Duel Display" now just by uncommenting one, and commenting the old one.
In this example I would be using ONLY the "Single CRT" setting
Ok, the above settings are settings that I used, this may vary depending on the machine, that is why I did this little tutorial.
To show all the different ways to construct your xorg.conf file
#Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT-1"
#Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: 1280x1024 +0+0"
These two lines are most important on duel display configurations.
CRT-1 means I am attached to head two on the graphics card
CRT-0 means I am attached to head one on the graphics card
