modem and video card ques

[Gibson]

geforce Ti 4200 se. Red Hat 8.0 it will only let me go up to 800x600 and when i change to a higher rez it tells me i have to reboot. when i reboot it tells me that it cant find that config. and it resets everything back to 800x600.

and i have no clue how to connect to the net (internal modem, AOpen FM56-PM 56K)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.


ive had Red Hat 8.0 for 2 days now and with the modem and videocard/montor issues iam having, Iam still happyer than with when i was with windows

Dual-boot system, ppppppsssssssss dont tell linux that windows is still hanging around :)

[JohnT]

geforce Ti 4200 se. Red Hat 8.0 it will only let me go up to 800x600 and when i change to a higher rez it tells me i have to reboot. when i reboot it tells me that it cant find that config. and it resets everything back to 800x600.

Of course your monitor settings have nothing to do with this, do they?

[Gibson]

i went to the monitor settings and found mine (Acer 76e) and am not sure if the GeForce 4 (gen) or the GeForce DDR was better for the GeForce 4 Ti 4200 se, so i tried them both.


After all that (2 min) it still dosnt work. it just resets it back to the gen defult settings 16thous at 800x600

its eather that or a no screen found message if i contiue to insert my own settigs.

[JohnT]

Here's your horizontal and vertical settings. At the commandline..............xf86config..........This will bring up your text configuration for X. It's not automatic and you'll probably have to do it several times, but take notes on questions it ask that you don't know or not sure what the answers are and get back.

Acer; Acer AcerView 76e; API9702
Horiz. 30.0-72.0
Vert. 50.0-110.0

[Gibson]

thank for the help, but i think linux hates me more than my x-girlfriend.

I tried it several times and it will let me input the info but it never really changes the setting. I feel like iam back in windows, where the computer says "Hey you can do what ever you want except what you want to do right now!!!!"


And i finally got linux to reg my modem but it says that is is always busy. I have and old ext modem here so i pluged it in and as soon as it started to dail out (wwwooooohhhhhhooo), it got really hot and smoke started to come out the back (@#!).

So ill keep rebooting into windows to check my email and try to sort this out for now.

[bwkaz]

You probably need the nVidia Linux drivers. Search around here, too, there are quite a few "how to" posts on the subject.

[Gibson]

Already did the driver

[bwkaz]

Oh. Heh, never mind then. ;)

[Parcival]

I've got a GeForce4, too, running it under RedHat 8.0

RedHat installed a generic NVidia driver that works okay as long as I don't start any 3D application (like the TUX race that comes in the distro) and I also successfuly configured the tech specs of my monitor settings. Of course I will update my driver once I get the inet working under Linux. =)

Question: everything seems fine so far except my monitor is flickering as the output from the graphic card must be on a refresh rate of 60Hz - how can I switch it to 75Hz? (my monitor's tech specs say it can run with 75Hz at 1280x1024)

[mdwatts]

I have mine set to 70Hz in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Compaq P2200"
VendorName "Compaq"
ModelName "P2200"
HorizSync 30-121
VertRefresh 50-160
ModeLine "1800x1440/70Hz" 250 1800 1896 2088 2392 1440 1441 1444 1490 +HSync +VSync
ModeLine "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Geforce3"
Monitor "Compaq P2200"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1800x1440/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1800x1440/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1800x1440/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1800x1440/70Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

[Parcival]

@ mdwatts

Wow, that was fast! Thanks a lot, I think I can handle the problem now. =)

It's amazing for me to see how helpful and supportive you guys are with bloody Linux newbies like me. =) Thanx again. =)