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Mandrake 10 latest Nvida Drivers black bar :blah!


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Guest Jediman

Ok, im using Mandrake 10, and the latest nvidia driver....any way of getting that rediculous black bar outta there? Any help with setting up the XF86Config-4 file to give me all the space? Thanks!

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Ok found a possible solution...

After consulting the /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA*/README file again, I noticed that NVIDIA's drivers on laptops read the EDID data from a non-standard location and they allowed an option to override it. Following their laptop directions I was able to get all modes working. This was done by modifying the /etc/modules.conf file and adding the following line:

options nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0

I will see if that works when i go home this afternoon :-D

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Usually these settings will work. If you are trying newer 5x.xx drivers they may not work in general. But as it goes:

SoftEDIDs=0

Mobile=2 or 4 (depending on the type of Toshiba)

This page might lead you down the right track:

http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/satellitepro-6100/

Barring resolution size and laptop of course and Linux flavor.

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