Thanks, Ted-

I made the corrections, and rebooted without mishap. My monitor seems to 
be behaving now.

lee

Ted Gould wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:14, Lee Einer wrote:
>  
>
>>The resolution problem with my monitor is fixed (thanks to all for your 
>>advice on that) but I am having another problem. The screen periodically 
>>becomes covered with horizontal and vertical lines. If I log out at that 
>>point, X appears to be hosed- I just get a blank screen. If I reboot, 
>>everything goes back to normal until the problem repeats. I am running 
>>Mandake 8.2, and using an Nvidia card. Long before getting my new 
>>monitor, I had loaded the Nvidia drivers, and reconfigured my 
>>/etc/X11/XF86config4 file as the Nvidia installation instructions 
>>specify. Now, My XF86config4 file  is back to showing the driver as "nv" 
>>instead of "nvidia" and the " load "glx"" line under Modules is missing. 
>>WTF?
>>    
>>
>
>Unfortunately most of the X configuration tools aren't smart enough to
>figure out what you have, and then update it with the changes you made. 
>That sounds like the case here.  When you configured your new monitor,
>then X configuration tool also thought it would change which driver your
>using (because it doesn't know about the NVidia driver).  I think if you
>change those two lines in your config file you'll probably be alot
>happier.
>
>		--Ted
>
>  
>

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Lee Einer
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