[mythtv-users] can't get nvidia to go at 50Hz

[victor rajewski]

On 10/3/07, Wim Fokkens <wimfokkens at planet.nl> wrote:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > I have an Nvidia based motherboard with onboard graphics - it's a
> > geforce 6100 or 6150 graphics unit (the manual and the PCI ID give
> > differing accounts). Since I live in PAL country I want to run the
> > monitor at a 50Hz refresh rate, but the card won't let me do so. The
> > monitor is capable of it, and I can do it if I boot into windows, but
> > neither the nvidia-settings utility (I'm using the 100.14.19 driver),
> > nor the open source NV driver let me do that. Any ideas?
> Is your monitor a flat panel display?
> If that is the case you have to ad the following line to the section device.
>         Option          "ModeValidation" "AllowNon60HzDFPModes"
> Otherwise the card won't go below 60Hz.

It's not a flat panel, it's a CRT. I tried this anyway, but with no luck.

vik