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Users / Re: Display problem with nVidia 8600GT card on 1080p TV
« on: February 24, 2008, 04:09:37 am »Colin,
You may want to look at this URL: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html
Although it is for Fedora, it goes through tweaking the display frequencies. Maybe useful.
Also try using the command cvt -r -v and plugging those values into the Modeline.
RichardP,
Thanks for your advice. I set my EDID on in xorg.conf, looked at my /var/log/Xorg.0.log, got the timings, plugged them into the modeline value in xorg.conf and that did the trick.
super
Nice one... glad to be of help. If you can, can you post your values in the Wiki hardware database - it may help someone with a similar problem.
Colin, what Super says opens a whole new can of worms. Suppose your EDID is reporting the correct values, as we are reading in the log, but X is not using those values. Super's method may work for you - fully turn on EDID, record the values, then plug the values into the xorg.conf.
Just curious - if you're running at 60 hertz, have you tried playing an NTSC video to see if the tearing is reduced?
Best Regards,
RichardP