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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:38:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD 5.2.1 - video card resolution problem
Message-ID:  <20040416153615.V70642@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <BAY15-DAV48BnserH4400025ae9@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY15-DAV48BnserH4400025ae9@hotmail.com>

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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Brian Henning wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> I am running bsd 5.2.1 and I installed the nvidia driver from the ports for the
> follwoing video card.
>
> dmesg
>
> nvidia0: <GeForce2 MX 100/200> mem 0xc0000000-0xc7ffffff,0xce000000-0xceffffff
> irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci1
>
> pciconf results:
>
>  class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x011110de rev=0xb2 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     device   = 'GeForce2 MX 100/200 (DDR) [NV11DDR]'
>     class    = display
>     subclass = VGA
>
>
>
> The installation went good, the card was recognized. The problem is the
> resolution doesn't get to my desired setting.
>
> ..
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier "Monitor0"
>     VendorName "SUN"
>     ModelName "574"
>     HorizSync 30-70
>     VertRefresh 50-120
>     Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> ..
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Screen0"
>     Device "Card0"
>     Monitor "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth 24
>
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Depth 24
>         Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Above are my XF86Config settings but all I get is a resolution of 640x480. Is
> there a way to get a higher resolution with this card?

Take a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log; it contains a rather voluminous log
written by XFree86. You may find a reason there why modes other than
640x480 are excluded.

Regards

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