epretorious Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 Using the Screen Resolution Preferences control panel (System->Preferences->Screen Resolution) I'm not able to configure the Gnome screen resolution to match the resolution of my Dell 2407WFP-HC flat panel monitor (1920x1200). The Screen Resolution Preferences control panel only offers... 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ...though the X.org control panel (Mandiva Control Center->Hardware->X Server) recognizes the nVidia GPU and configures X.org to support 1920x1200 resolution: Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Dell" ModelName "Dell 2407WFP (Digital)" HorizSync 30.0-83.0 VertRefresh 56.0-76.0 # Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 74.0 kHz hsync, ratio 16/10) ModeLine "1920x1200" 154 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 -hsync +vsync # Edited for clarity EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 3 - GeForce 4 (96xx)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" Option "RenderAccel" "false" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection EndSection FWIW: Though the nVidia control panel (System->Administration->nVidia Display Settings, ver. 1.0-9639) recognizes the GPU and the monitor correctly, it only offers three more display settings than the Gnome Screen Resolution Preferences control panel: 1280x1024 1280x960 1280x800 How can I make Gnome use the corect resolution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 (edited) Can you set your resolution at 1920*1200 using nvidia-settings If you can run it and set up your display like that, then all you need to do to have 1920*1200 at next login is put at your Gnome startup applications the following: nvidia-settings --load-config-only The Gnome admin modules have never been terribly reliable. BTW your xorg configuration looks OK- just get sure that there's nothing activating DRI in there. Edited March 12, 2008 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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