thoughts, notes and mooo...
Building airplanes is still part of daily routine. But there're other subjects to legofiy now as well... Cars and animals!
His explanation: "The animal (in the third picture) is supposed to be a friendly Panda bear, with sharp nails and scary eyes. And whenever he runs into another mean animal, he will growl at him - Grooooowwwwlll!!"
After many experiments, I final got Xorg configured in such a way that I could use both the optimized (but closed source) NVidia driver and the Nec 20wgx2's native resolution of 1680x1050!
I assume its the Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck" in the config file below that actually did the trick. It basically tells the driver to ignore whatever the videocard claims its pixel clock limitations are.
Obviously the videocard is not aware of its own power...
Technical info and keywords:
GeFroce FX 5200, AGP 8x, 128MB NVidia driver version 1.0 build 8762 Xorg version 7.0.0 (7.0.0-0ubuntu45) Ubuntu "Dapper Drake" 6.06 Nec 20wgx2 1680x1050 pixels
Some references that got me to try this:
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/dell2405fpw.html http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52052#4 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=633393
And see my current xorg.conf file...
from the 'why-didn't-I-think-of-this-before' department:
To trace the resolution of a domain name, use:
dig +trace <domain name>
Thanks to my del.icio.us I found dnsreport.com and dnsstuff.com and immediately started testing n--tree.net, lentiform.org.
The DNS configuration for n--tree.net did have a few problems where the reported nameserver (ns.n--tree.net) was different from what I setup at my domain name registrar (output.n--tree.net).
Another problem turned out to be that I made output, mail and ns so called CNAME entries, pointing to n--tree.net.. And you're supposed to make these A entries.
A fix to get rid of all but one warning was adding an alias for abuse@n--tree.net.
The remaining warning for n--tree.net is something about an SPR record. I'll have to study this a bit more to see what I am supposed to to with that.
And now the DNS configuration for n--tree.net gets a "B+" (sometimes even an "A")! :-)
The lentiform.org suffered from most of the same issues. With one import difference being that the nameserver for this domain (ns.n--tree.net), is in another TLD. There's some mentioning of "glue" records that I could (should?) add.
A completely different issue for lentiform.org was reported through the dnsstuff.com tool. For some reason the DNS queries for this domain always get a cached response from ultradns.com.
I have no idea why...
