Re: Video Card and Hard Drives

Unk McThunderpants ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Etch with kernel 2.6.18-4-686 and KDE on a Toshiba TE2100 (tecra),
> and I'm having some issues with my video card.
>
> It's an nVidia GeForce4 420 GO, which is, as far as I know, supported by the
> Legacy nvidia drivers.
>
> I've tried the NV driver for XOrg, the proprietary nVidia drivers (legacy and
> not) from the website as well as the nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy
> packages. The non-legacy packages all don't work at all, and the legacy ones
> only give me a max resolution of 800x600. when I use the VESA driver for Xorg
> I can get 1024x768 which is, according to the spec sheet, what the screen can
> handle up to.
>
> the problem with this is that the neither the NV or vesa drivers seem to have
> any 3D acceleration etc. (I know it's only got 16MB of VRAM... but I'm not
> trying to play oblivion here :-P )
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to remedy this?
>
> Also I was wondering if there are any compatibility issues with using USB Hard
> drives that anyone knows of, or are they all fine? I'm assuming that they
> just show up as Mass Storage Devices or something, but before I go out and
> spend $150 on one, I thought I might just ask...
>
> thanks a lot in advance
>
> Nik

Add
Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
ÔÏ section Monitor and you will have 1024x768

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