continuing monitor difficulties

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Author: Lee Einer
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Subject: continuing monitor difficulties
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:
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>>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?
>>
>>
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>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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