Video card Geforce 6150SE
Monitor Samsung Syncmaster 2233BW
I have been trying to get the Nvidia drivers to work for about a week now
Every once in a while I can get it to work but after a reboot or two the settings are gone and then trying to get it working again is a nightmare.
When it works right I can go to the Nvidia panel and I can see it knows I am using a Syncmaster Samsung monitor.
When it is not working the Nvidia panel does not know what monitor I have.
I have tried with the driver in the package manager, the sfs driver both 33 and 40 versions.
The sfs driver I have the most luck with, sometimes it works most of the time it doesn't.
I even got it working once with a multisession DVD and thought Ah Ha! it wont change back now, as I wont save anymore sessions.
Wrong, next boot settings are gone.
Very frustrating.
This morning I decided to try and old Princeton 17 LCD monitor I have with the DVD multisession.
Booted up with puppy pfix=ram loaded the package manager driver.
exited to command line type xorgwizard choose nvidia nvidia then choose 1280 x 1024 and back command line and xwin.
Start Nvida control panel and it knows the name of the monitor, no problem.
Reboot the system save the session and it boots up, and all is good.
Change the Nvidia settings to 1440 something which the monitor doesnt really support and it works although bottom of screen is not viewable.
Reboot and save, settings still good, change back to correct resolution, reboot and save and all is still good, reboot again and still the settings are good.
Seems the Samsung Syncmaster is reporting something to puppy causing it to change the settings and rewriting the file.
Question is how to get it to stop this so I can use the Samsung.
I guess I could go buy a different monitor but this one is only 4 - 6 years old.
I hope someone has run into this problem and can offer a fix.
Also, I am currently running Lucid 511 and it works fine with this monitor, I have had it jump out once or twice but got it back.
I have also tried RacyNOP and it has the same problems as does Slacko
Mark