seawolf - have followed doco on getting Xorg installed and that has worked. The pieces I am missing are from a forum post about getting the nvidia driver loaded.
My /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains the following specs from the monitor manufacturer [Samsun Syncmaster 2243nw]
Taken from the screen and monitor section. I used the online modeline generator to calculate the modeline however the LCD panel bios complains about incorrect / inoptimal refresh and the screen is very fuzzy on fonts even though it does actually fill the entire screen?
Linea, I installed top 3 pkgs from typing 'nvidia' search in pkg manager then edited xorg.conf from 'nv' to 'nvidia' and got the splash screen so think that driver side of things is now ok. However, trying to get something [anything] close to a correct res is proving extremely difficult. I have tried various xorg.conf additions to no avail including ;
Ironically I really wanted to buy a 1600x1200 standard aspect ratio panel but couldnt find one anywhere at a decent price [UK] Now I feel that this 16:10 aspect is more trouble than worth!!!
was giving me a wild goose chase. I tried 'gtf' at the cli as well as pressing 'auto' on the LCD and its now synced in.
I now have to illiminate about a dozen options from xorg.conf that I have inserted as suggested by various web pages
as I always like to keep record of the minimum working config. Will post here when done (and keep my own copy this time in case this forum gets changed!)
Out of interest, is there any cross platform procedure for deriving correct modeline timings? I was just thinking as that 'other os' seems to get it right without 'doing anything' - how I can find out the exact parameters that it runs in?
but the modeline created by gtf where closest. One thing the above did alert me to though was panel dimesnions in mm. I didnt know about that, but now when I look in the xorg log I can see that a caculation is done based on that info so I will be leaving it in :)