Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>Peter T. Breuer wrote:
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>>>No they don't. I have/had one on one of my portable. Both vesa and the
>>>standard nv worked just fine. And anyway, your advice is bad in
>>>general, whether or not it applies here, so it's bad advice , and thank
>>>you. Now just put your advice where your clap is.
>
>
>>Yes, they do. Try the new Toshiba 6100 series of laptop with a screen
>>resolution over 1280x1024, or a Geforce4 add-on card with a Mitsubishi
>>2060 monitor at any setting over 800x600.
>
>
> The laptop will need special treatment, but should be fine with the
> vesa driver (I have two toshibas, and one of them is nvidia, but I
> forget which one ... anyway, I used vesa with it until a native driver
> appeared for card, and had no problems). The monitor is irrelevant to
> the question - you can always run a monitor at any speed you choose up
> to the cards maximum clock speed.

Except that the *driver* doesn't support the higher speeds, unless you
load the "nvidia" kernel driver and OpenGL libraries instead of merely
the vesa driver. You've clearly never actually gotten the best out of
your configurations.

>>Inexperienced git.
>
>
> Keep your rude words to yourself and apply them to yourself. I've
> invented more modelines than you've had paydays.

And you've making them up out of the ether, instead of actually getting
the best out of Nvidia chipsets.