SOLVED-"Out of Scan Range" on monitor for 2007 amd64 install

Maliwik · Last edited by Maliwik on Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

I'm attempting the 2007 install and everything appears to have loaded correctly. When it starts up xorg, I get a big white box on my Sony Multiscan 200GS monitor that says "Out of Scan Range". I have an Nvidia 7950 GT graphics card, and I noticed that the card wasn't included on the list of drivers. I noticed it had the 7900 GT and 7900 GS, but no 7950 GT.

Are the 7950 GT drivers based on the 7900 drivers and could it possibly be some other problem, or are the 7950 GT drivers entirely separate? If it is the drivers, are there any generic drivers I could load just to get the install working?

Thanks in advance.

--Mike
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Raptor85 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 208

try editing your xorg.conf file to the video mode/frequency your monitor requires. I've had to do this many times before, especially with older monitors that only run at 60hz. (driver defaulted to 65hz and the monitor reports "out of range" error)

Maliwik · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject:

I found the specs online and set the HorizSync to 35-85 and the VertRefresh to 50-120. These are the exact numbers that the specs showed.

Unfortunately, I get the same message.

--Mike
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Maliwik · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

I downloaded the Nvidia drivers from the http://www.nvidia.com/ site on my windows partition and put it in a FAT32 partition and booted the LiveDVD. I then mounted the FAT32 partition to a directory named /mnt/gentoo/shared.
I then typed sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run and it brought me to a screen that said:

Maliwik · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:38 am Post subject:

Would anybody have a solution to this? I've actually been preoccupied with college to try to mess around too much with it, but if there's an easy-fix for what's happening, I'd like to try to get it working.

--Mike
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tatotato · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:43 am Post subject:

You need to recompile these drivers either into your kernel or as modules for it.

To install the NVidia driver all you should need to do is

Maliwik · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:46 am Post subject:

Thanks, I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Eyes are bugging out from staring at the computer screen so long haha

I'll deliver my results tomorrow. =)

--Mike
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AllenJB · Veteran Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 1285

Just emerging gentoo-sources may not be enough. You also need to make sure that the /usr/src/linux symlink is pointing to the source for your current kernel. You can do this using the eselect utility ("emerge -a eselect") by running "eselect profile list" then "eselect profile set #" where # is the number of the entry you wish to use.

Maliwik · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject:

Can I do all of this without being online?
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Maliwik · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject:

I got it working by selecting the lowest settings possible for everything in the xorgconfig and selecting generic VESA compatible.

My icons are the size of Texas, but at least I can do a graphic install now =)

--Mike
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jfp · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

With regard to nvidia, you have two basic choices - Either use the in kernel drivers, or use the proprietary nvidia-drivers.

I don't see mention in the thread. Are you trying use the in kernel nvidia drivers? I have never used them myself, prefering to hold my nose and use the proprietary drivers.

if you don't mind using the proprietary drivers try emerge nvidia-drivers and see if that helps.
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