Re: [gNewSense-users] GeForce 7025 and gNS

[Bruno Miguel]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 22:13:17 Eric Padman wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 21:34 +0000, Bruno Miguel wrote:
> > A few days ago I had some problems with the power grid and my computer
> > had to go to garbage (cpu and motherboard toasted). So, I bought new
> > hardware. The new motherboard comes with a NVidia GeForce 7025, but I
> > can't have a screen resolution bigger than 800x600 without getting and
> > "out of sync" error. The only - and worst - solution I know is to use the
> > NVidia blobs, but I do not want this. I've searched for a solution but
> > the only one I found was compiling the most recent noveau drivers, but I
> > can't do it because I can't satisfy all the dependencies.
> > Unfortunately for me I have to stick with this onboard graphic card
> > because I can't afford a new one right now, and I don't wan't to use it
> > with proprietary drivers. I will appreciate any help anyone can give me.
>
> Running gksudo displayconfig-gtk and and manually setting the monitor
> and video card *may* help.

The only settings that work are the ones that get me a top 800x600. With the 
others I always get an Out of Sync error in the monitor.

> Does sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg give you any errors?

I get something about a possible overwrite. :(

> Cheers,
> Eric (MentalNotes)