no screen resolution

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/9/07, Pantor <pantor at painter-decorator.eu> wrote:
> Exactly yes, this is nvidia chip. Forget to add, that my knowledge in
> linux zero. Just third day with new OS.

Well, as I said, you can either install the nvidia binary driver
(debian may provide a packaged version, otherwise I guess you can
download it from nvidia), or edit your xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)
as I described below.  If you hae trouble editing it, let me know and
attach your config and I can walk you through it.

Alex

>
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, Pantor <pantor at painter-decorator.eu> wrote:
> >> NO idea about driver, but card is inno3d 6200 AGP 256MB. Would you be
> >> able to advice how to use cvt and gtf please.
> >
> > Sounds like an nvidia chip.  if you are using DVI, you may not be able
> > to change the mode since due to a limitation in the nv driver.  In
> > that case you may want to try the binary nvidia driver.  If not, you
> > can use cvt to generate a mode line, e.g.,
> >
> > cvt 1280 720 60
> > or
> > cvt -r 1280 720 60
> > for a reduced blanking mode (useful on LCDs).  stick the mode line cvt
> > generates into the monitor section of your xorg config and add the
> > mode name to the modes line in the display subsection of the screen
> > section of your config.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
>