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vertical refresh rate is too high (85 Hz) for my monitor on 10.04.1 with no GUI

Asked by Mike Bappe

My console display goes blank after booting. The monitor complains that the signal is out of range. V.SYNC is 85 Hz. I'm running Ubuntu Lucid Server 10.04.1 LTS 64-bit with no GUI Desktop. My monitor is an Etronix 1710. The problem occurs with different video cards. PCIe PowerColor HD2400 Pro. PCI 3D Fusion GeForce 6200. GeForce MX4000, PCI 3D Rage PRO. I was able to fix it on the ATI cards by installing the proprietary driver from AMD, but this required that I install several graphics packages and increased my disk usage from 900 MB to 1.4 GB. Yuck. I have not tried the proprietary nVidia driver yet. Is there any way I can control the V.SYNC frequency used by the open source drivers using grub config files or kernel config files without having to install a bunch of otherwise unnecessary graphics packages?

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Mike Bappe (michaelbappe) said : 		#1

Installing the nVidia proprietary driver solves the problem for the nVidia video cards.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

I always recommend this:
http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/lucidubuntu-10-04-high-resolution-plymouth-virtual-terminal-for-atinvidia-cards-with-proprietaryrestricted-driver/

May help

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Mike Bappe (michaelbappe) said : 		#3

I'm not sure how any of this is related. I have no gui desktop or any other need for graphics and I did not see vertical refresh rate mentioned. It seems like what I need should not be so complicated. I just want a working text-based terminal with an old monitor that does not support 85 Hz.

I did find a simpler solution for some video cards.

My SVA VR-17S monitor went blank after installing Ubuntu Server with no GUI desktop. My Etronix 1710 complained that the signal was out of range. V.SYNC of ~85 HZ. My other monitors were fine. This was with ATI HD2400 PCIe video. Also with ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI and nVidia GeForce 6200 PCI and GeForce MX4000 PCI. Also with PCIe Asus EAH4350 and MSI N210 PCIe. But not with S3 Trio64 PCI.

ATI suggested I install the proprietary driver. I did. I had to install a bunch of graphics software which increased my disk footprint by more than 50%. But it worked for the ATI cards.

So I wanted to see if the nVidia proprietary driver would work and have fewer dependencies. First thing the nvidia installer did was complain about being incompatible with the nouveau driver and disable it (at my direction) by creating /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf with the with the following contents.

   # generated by nvidia-installer
   blacklist nouveau
   options nouveau modeset=0

I wanted to see if this was sufficient to solve my problem (without installing the nvidia proprietary driver). It was. For some cards. Either of the two lines was sufficient with my PCI GeForce MX4000 card. Just the options line was sufficient for PCI GeForce 6200 and ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI and my PCIe MSI N210. But no combination of the lines was sufficient for my PCIe ATI HD2400 or PCIe Asus EAH4350.

I am still without a low-overhead solution for ATI HD2400 and EAH4350. Maybe the info provided will help point someone with more knowledge than me in the right direction.

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