Hi Power.Supply
For what it is worth, I have had endless problems with my video card configuration, and did everything everybody ever wrote about setting it up, and it still did not work.
In the end I found that my monitor was not providing the correct EDID (Extended Display Interface Data) to the video card, and that caused the video card to "ignore" whatever I had in my xorg.conf.
In the end I had to manually set the video card such that it ignores the EDID data for it to work. It may just work for you too. I paste the relevant section of my xorg.conf for you here:
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "TRUE"
Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection
Just make sure you have configured your monitor's horizontal and vertical frequencies in your xorg.conf to prevent any potential disasters. My full xorg.conf is as follow:
Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "L1715"
HorizSync 30-80
VertRefresh 56-70
Modeline "1280x1024@60" 114.98 1280 1312 1744 1776 1024 1045 1055 1076
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "TRUE"
Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Nvidia"
Monitor "L1715"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024@60" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024@60" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024@60" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024@60" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024@60" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024@60" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
According to Philips (www.p4c.philips.com/files/1/107e4374/107e4374_dfu_aen.pdf), this should be the specifications for your monitor, which you can use to set up your xorg.conf:
Technical Specifications CRT
• Size and deflection 17 inch / 41 cm ; 90° deflection angle
• Dot pitch 0.27 mm
• Horizontal pitch 0.23 mm
• Tube type Shadow mask, flat square, high contrast, anti-glare, anti-static, anti reflection, light transmission 47%
107E Product Information
• Phosphor P22
• Recommended display area 12.0" x 9.0" / 306 x 230 mm
• Maximum display area 12.9" x 9.7" / 327 x 245 mm
SCANNING
• Horizontal scanning 30 - 70 KHz
• Vertical scanning 50 - 160 Hz
VIDEO
• Video dot rate 108 MHz
• Input impedance
- Video 75 ohm
- Sync 2.2 kOhm
• Input signal levels 0.7 Vpp
• Sync input signal
Separate sync
Composite sync
• Sync polarities Positive and negative
WHITE COLOR TEMPERATURE
Chromaticity CIE coordinates:
• at 9300 degrees K x = 0.283 / y = 0.297
• at 6500 degrees K x = 0.313 / y = 0.329
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