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From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
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Subject: Re: NVidia Drivers Released !
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On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:34 am, Karo Salminen wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 04:16:09 -0700
>
> Matt Jibson <dolmant@dolmant.net> wrote:
> > > I can't use my custom modelines
> >
> > I had a similar problem until I modified my device section (the
> > final two Option entries):
> > Section "Device"
> >         Identifier  "Card0"
> >         Driver      "nvidia"
> >         VendorName  "Generic"
> >         BoardName   "nv"
> >         Option      "NvAgp" "3"
> >         Option      "IgnoreEDID" "true"
> >         Option      "UseEdidFreqs" "false"
> > EndSection
>
> Those options had no effect. From log:
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Ignoring EDIDs
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not probing EDIDs.
>
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1280x960":
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):   horizontal sync width (1656 - 1344 = 312) greater
> than 256
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1024x768":
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):   horizontal sync width (1344 - 1080 = 264) greater
> than 256
>
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for Display Device 0:
> (**) NVIDIA(0):      Mode "800x600": 63.1 MHz, 54.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 800 x 600
>
> [...snip dmesg...]
>
> Any ideas?

    Tweak your modelines so that the horiz. sync width is less than 256?  
IIt's just a wild thought.  :-)

    xvidtune could be of considerable help to you, as could chapter 10 
("XFree86 Configuration in Depth") of Greg Lehey's book, _The Complete 
FreeBSD_.  This chapter has a discussion of how to compute modelines 
yourself from first principles.

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