Guest Jediman Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jediman Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jediman Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 Nope... so anyone with linux on the laptop and XF86 please...what did you do to remove the black bar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teraphy Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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