I'm gonna give a thumbs up for Scott's suggestion as well, but it really depends on the driver you're using. Rather than using the vesa driver, try using the "nv" driver or the proprietary nvidia driver <http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_190.42.html> (link is for AMD64). There are a lot of arguments about using the proprietary driver but in all honesty the driver works very well for any users of later nvidia cards, where the vesa and nv drivers can get be a serious pain in the butt to configure. Since you're in Debian, you can get an older version than the 190.42 driver by getting the "nvidia-glx" package in apt. Right now the official stable repository has 173.14 and the unstable repository has 185.18. Either should be fine. The nvidia-glx package usually will take you through some configuration steps when you install it, since the official nVidia drivers use some interesting configuration methods in your xorg.conf file... don't be surprised if you don't see your resolutions declared anywhere. Hope this helps. -Adam On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:48:16PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > I've gone one step further and tried removing the file completely and > I think its actually worked on some setups (!). > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Brian Wall wrote: > > > >> Ok, I'll admit I'm not much of a genius when it comes to modifying > >> xorg.conf. Every time I get a newish piece of hardware I am reminded > >> of this. > > > > And I'll admit that my main desktop/s xorg.conf is an INSANE mess due to > > an INSANELY over-complicated setup (two video cards and three monitors > > with different resolutions/aspects) and the fact that it's technically the > > same xorg.conf that started life as xfree86.conf and has just been taken > > apart and put together with chewing gum and toothpicks as I've upgraded my > > system over the past DECADE. No "auto config" has really ever been able to > > figure it out EXACTLY right. > > > > > > That said, I've found that on simple, single-monitor setups with just a > > plain ol' USB mouse/keyboard, all you REALLY need in anything even > > resembling a modern Linux distro is this: > > > > ### BEGIN xorg.conf #################### > > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > > EndSection > > > > Section "Screen" > > Identifier "Default Screen" > > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > > Device "Configured Video Device" > > EndSection > > > > ### END xorg.conf ################# > > > > It scares me a lot, but I've had that just WORK on machines with regular > > aspects (1280x1024 and 1600x1200) and widescreen (1400x1050 and 1920x1080) > > and whatever the heck aspect 1366x768 is. > > > > So my advice is try the super super super simple setup and see if that > > works. (: > > > > > > > > -Yaron > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > -- > Scott Dier <scott at dier.name> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list