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

[victor rajewski]

On 10/3/07, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/07, victor rajewski <askvictor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> If it has the graphics built-in, it's a 6100.
>
> What is your xorg modeline?

Well, being nvidia, the normal modelines aren't in my xorg.conf.
There's an option metamode 1280x1024_75 for my selected mode, which
I've tried changing to 1280x1024_50 with no success.

I think I used to understand X configuration until this nvidia crap
and it's nvidia_settings came along.

Cheers,

vik