Screen resolution and frequency

[graviton]

Hi all,

I installed latest Fedora, it finds my graphics card ---> Geforce 6200SE Turbocache
Installs generic driver for screen ----> which is in fact a ' Vibrant 17" ' ---> I know for sure it can handle 70Hz.
I can only give in 600x480 at 60Hz and 800x600 at 60 Hz in the "screen" gui.
When I go into xorg.conf and edit it with modelines like "1024x768" or "1024x768@70" or give in the horizontal and vertical numbers etc etc I always get errors when rebooting. (as root)
Most of the time it is for instance 'error in line 28 modeline is not recognized" or something like that.
Tried giving in all kinds of configs which I found from other distributions but to no avail.

Even when I can get my X server started without errors with editing the file a little bit, I cannot get the screen resolution or freq in the graphical interface.
Strange thing is, just before rebooting it actually seems to goto 1024x768.

It's driving me crazy :d

Here is my Xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[Seve]

Hello:
I installed latest Fedora
If you mean F9 Preview ?

Then, make sure you have the package
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
installed
rpm -aq | grep nouveau
should tell you.

Then change the following in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

Driver "nv"
to
Driver "nouveau"

save, exit and either re-start your X server or reboot and see how it goes.

You may also want to select the correct monitor or at least a generic one with the correct screen size.
From a terminal type
system-config-display

and once again you will have exit and either re-start your X server or reboot and see how it goes.

Seve

[graviton]

Not the preview 9, using latest stable 8.
Seems I do not know the correct way to manually give in freq and resolution in xorg.conf

Screen is not available in list ---> "Vibrant", but I know it can handle 70-75Hz at 1024x768 so generic driver with manual setting should work but I don't know syntax of code (xorg) I have to change or either I'm stupid, probably the last :p

As far as I can see from other distros and settings I should be able to give in something like HorizSync 31.0 - 96.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 160.0 (as an example) but then during booting I get console errors kinda like HorizSynch not supported or recognized, very strange.

[Seve]

Hello:
I'm sure you are not stupid.

Try installing the nvidia drivers from livna here is a link to help you.
http://dnmouse.webs.com/nvidia.html

Seve

[graviton]

Thanks, I'll try that, now it's time for bed :)

[graviton]

Well ... I did what you said, followed all instructions for installing the other driver.
After reboot my screen has gone from 800x600 to 600x480, now I cannot even see confirmation buttons anymore, had to remove top bar so I could confirm edits I tried.
Now I cannot add a new bar anymore because there are no options in right mouse click;

So I am screwed

Not even gonna bother reinstalling.