* Alan Pope (alan@???) wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 21:35 +0000, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > I am having trouble with the Nvidia driver on my laptop. It will
> > only use 800x600 and not the 1024x768 that it should.
> >
> > If I change to the nv driver, the resolution works fine.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> What chipset is it?
>
> What does lspci report it as?
It is an Nvidia Gforce4 420 Go
lspci reports it as such, as does the Xorg logs when it loads the
Nvidia drivers.
I have been playing with my desktop system today, and have managed to
get compiz working on that. Very cool, but ultimately not very
useful.
I like being able to turn compiz on and off easily, as some things
(xine full screen) don't seem to like it.
I will have another bash at getting the laptop to work tomorrow. I
very nearly lost my temper with it yesterday, which is not good as
this is supposed to be fun.
Back to my problem. I am guessing that the Nvidia driver is trying
to be nice to the hardware and falling back to a safe setting. What
I need to do is tell it who is boss, and get it to run at the
resolution that I want (1024x768).
Regards
--
Philip Stubbs
http://www.stuphi.co.uk
