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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

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1920x1200 console w/ nVidia 7600GS

I have a system capable of 1920x1200, and when I modprobe the nouveau module, my console immediately springs into a beautifully crisp 1920x1200.  So I know that this is possible, but the nouveau drivers are still very much in beta, and I would also really like to just have a 1920x1200 while running the blob nvidia drivers for X (nouveau and the binary drivers conflict).  Modifying my menu.lst's kernel line to include vga=073D (1920x1200) fails and presents alternative modes at boot, none of which are over 1920x1200.  I have also experimented with hwinfo and vbetest; they don't show an option for 1920x1200.  It is possible, though!  nouveau releals that.  So I would really like to get this going.  What can I try?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: 1920x1200 console w/ nVidia 7600GS

Use nouveau for the console, but then unload it when you want to start X. It's the only way until nvidia provides a fbcon driver in their proprietary package.

kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 413

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Re: 1920x1200 console w/ nVidia 7600GS

Uhh, you looked at uvesafb? I have a nvidia card and use it to have a high resolution virtual console. Its is compatible with the binary drivers from nvidia (I'm using it now).

jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 156

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Re: 1920x1200 console w/ nVidia 7600GS

My 9400GS will happily leap into 1920x1200 with the info pruned from

hwinfo --framebuffer

instead of 073D I have a hex format number like 0x1234. This is using the binary blob.

gun26

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Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 55

Re: 1920x1200 console w/ nVidia 7600GS

Got a 9600GT card and a Samsung 2443BW monitor (native 1920x1200) here and I'm using Grub2. In the /etc/default/grub file, I have GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1200x32 and GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep. The kernel comes up in the correct mode with this and no video mode directives on the kernel command line. The Nvidia blob driver (195.36.24) works fine with this combination. I'm looking forward to the day when nouveau is good enough and I can ditch the blob, but we're not there yet, IMHO.

jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

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Re: 1920x1200 console w/ nVidia 7600GS

Ok i've just got home and checked for you, my grub reads:

vga=0x037d

So it's the same code as yours but in hex format, so you could try that?