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Flapjack

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Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 33

Display mode problems after installing new graphics card

Hi

I've finally got round to replacing my old Nvidia GeForce 440 to a spanking new GeForce 6200. Everything seems to work fine, but when I try to run my kiddies' favourite games (Extreme Tux Racer and SuperTux) I get the following message:

Cannot display this video mode, change computer display input to 1280x1024@60Hz

I've tried running the nvidia configuring tool, and I've edited the xorg.conf file manually, but I still get the same message. I'm sure there's a simple solution to this, but I can't seem to locate it. Here is my xorg.conf file:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder57)  Thu Jul 17 18:40:12 PDT 2008

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder57)  Thu Jul 17 18:39:19 PDT 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "fr"
    Option         "XkbVariant" "latin9"
EndSection

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by Flapjack (2008-10-04 08:11:08)

Righard

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-12-13

Posts: 29

Re: Display mode problems after installing new graphics card

Your xorg.conf seems to be missing a lot of section. Can you backup your old xorg.conf and run...

hwd -xa

And if your using proprietary Nvidia drivers change the driver in de 'device' section to 'nvidia'.

Last edited by Righard (2008-10-06 23:00:27)