Yup, it works! <br><br>I had forgotten I had traded that particular card to a neighbor earlier this year for some extra harddrives so I had to borrow it back. Once I got it installed in the machine it had no problems rendering 1280x1024 and even higher using the "nv" driver on my (my wife's actually) Viewsonic A90 19" CRT.
<br><br>uname -a supplies:<br>Linux biggun3 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Tue Dec 5 22:26:18 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux<br><br>and the relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:<br><br>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT]"
<br> Driver "nv"<br> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "A90-2"<br> Option "DPMS"
<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Default Screen"<br> Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT]"<br> Monitor "A90-2"
<br> DefaultDepth 24<br><br>SubSection "Display"<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
<br> EndSubSection<br><br>And finally I put a screenshot of it up and working with "xvidtune" in the picture as well at:<br><a href="http://www.illhostit.net/files/529/nvdriver.png">http://www.illhostit.net/files/529/nvdriver.png
</a><br><br>Best,<br><br>Jon Hoskins<br><br><br><a href="http://www.illhostit.net/files/529/nvdriver.png">http://www.illhostit.net/files/529/nvdriver.png</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen</b> <<a href="mailto:k.s.matheussen@notam02.no">k.s.matheussen@notam02.no</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>October:<br>>><br>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:39:30AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:<br>>>> Greetings;<br>>>><br>>>> I'm happy as a clam in mud with my new machine, but it's developed a
<br>>>> problem. I purchased an inexpensive nVidia-based card that's starting to<br>>>> behave poorly. I think the hardware itself is buggy, the display will<br>>>> sometimes shudder rapidly side-to-side, blurring the screen view.
<br>>>> Sometimes it stops and stays stopped, other times it goes on until I<br>>>> have to reboot. The problem doesn't appear to be a heating problem, but<br>>>> I've decided to go for a much better card anyway.
<br>>>><br>>>> So, I want an nVidia-based card with 256 MB video RAM and a decent<br>>>> cooling fan, preferably under $200. Any recommendations ?<br>>>><br>>>> Best,<br>>>>
<br>>>> dp<br>>><br>>> I've been happy so far with a Gigabyte GV-NX66256DP2, based on the<br>>> GeForce 6600. It's PCI-Express. Not a high-end card at all, it cost<br>>> $95 in April 2006, but so far works flawlessly, and it's fanless.
<br>>><br>><br>> I have a 6600LE card, but I'm unable to run at higher resolution than<br>> 1024x786 with the nv driver. Can you do that?<br>><br>> That will also depend on what monitor you are running and how it is
<br>> configured in X.<br><br>Hmm, well. I have tried various things, and most of it works with the<br>nvidia driver, but nothing have so far worked with the nv driver.<br><br><br>> I've got an old ViewSonic A90 19" and a 6600GT that by
<br>> default will run 1280x1024 @ 85Hz with the "nv" driver.<br>><br><br>Thats impressive. I have googled around, have never not seen anyone<br>succeeding running a 6600 chipset with 1280x1024 using the nv driver
<br>(many people compaining though).<br>Please mail me your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and the output of "uname -a".<br>That information might help the author of the nv driver to get it into<br>shape.<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br>