Will my graphics card support this?

[Andrew Robinson]

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 09:15:01PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>> I received a Dell 20 inch monitor for Christmas. It's native resolution 
>> is 1680x1050. Looking at my Xorg.0.log file, I find these lines:
>>
>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (hsync out of range)
> 
> 
> 
>> Do these lines mean my video card will not support this resolution or 
>> that I need to do some configuration to get the card to support this 
>> resolution or something else entirely?
> 
> Have you run system-config-display (as root)? It should detect the new
> monitor and let you make whatever adjustments seem appropriate.
> 
> Just in case, back up /etc/X11/xorg.conf before you do so. Just in
> case.
> 
> 
system-config-display fails with a host of python error messages. Can 
you tell me how to fix that?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson