Laptop's strange screen resolution

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You may try to run:
gtf 1680 1050 60
last argument is refresh rate. it'll generate Modeline you should copy
and paste in Monitor section of your xorg.conf


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:44:48 -0800, Richard S. Crawford
<rscrawford at mossroot.com> wrote:
> I recently picked up an HP zd8000 laptop computer to replace the Sony that was
> stolen just before Ash Wednesday.  Tonight, I'm finally getting around to
> dual-booting the thing (it currently runs Windows XP).
> 
> This laptop has a widescreen monitor, with a resolution of 1680x1050.  The
> video card is an ATI Radeon X300.  Currently, my display is "stretched"
> across the entire screen, from side to side, kind of ugly and hard to work
> with.  Is there a way to get the resolution set properly to 1680x1050?  I
> haven't been able to do so using the display tools.
> 
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