Dell 8200 at 1600x1200?

[tvilot]

I recently purchased a Dell 8200 and put Linux (RedHat 7.2) on it. (specifically 7.2 for development reasons).

I have gotten the NVidia driver up and running just beautifully and I couldn't be happier except for one small thing:

When I run it at 1600x1200, the X display doesn't fit on the entire screen. It's not "virtual," either. That is -- if you move the cursor off screen, the display does not scroll over to follow it.

Works fine at 1400x1050.

I'll leave it at 1400x1050 if I have to, but my reading of postings in here suggests to me I should be able to run at full resolution.

Thoughts? :c)

[dorkface]

actually i'm experiencing that very same problem... i don't have the 1450 in my xf86config so it just defaults down to 1024. hopefully someone who has resolved this issue will reply, i'm gonna keep searching and i'll post if i figure it out :(

[tvilot]

Might actually be the amount of RAM in my video card. I thought it was 64. It's actually 32.

In Winblowz, it also does not come up (or allow) 1600x1200.

[dorkface]

actually i've got 64mb in my video card... and in windows it does allow 1600x1200 (1900x1400 when i have a monitor plugged in). i can do 1600x1200 when the machine is docked (in linux) as well though... hrm...

[Xevious]

can you post a copy of your XF86Config file?

[Andy Mecham]

... and a copy of /var/log/XFree86.0.log...

--andy

[kmcfadd]

I also can't get my 8200 into the higher rez's.....If there is anyone out there that is able to post their XF86Config file that would be very helpful.........
Thanks,
Ken
:banghead:

[petrh]

I had similar problem on Dell Latitude C840. New nvidia driver 4191 logged message that bandwith is too small fo r16x12 . It worked on GF2MX ok though. So I had to put following in the XF86Config:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce 4 Go 440"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NvAgp" "1"
Option "DigitalVibrance" "1"
Option "NoBandWidthTest" "1"
Option "renderAccel" "1"
# Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x960" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Hope it helps!

Petr

[kmcfadd]

Thanks a bunch for the info, most of the lines you had, I had, but there were a few I didn't have.......Not sure though, but do I still need the section for the display???? If so, would you know the values I need to put in for those lines???? ie rez of the LCD....

Thanks again,
Ken