FC5 and Dell 2005FPW display

[Serge de Souza]

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> Serge wrote:
>
>> Steven Stern wrote:
>>
>>> Configured FC5 to use my Dell 2005FPW display at 1680x1050.  I wind 
>>> up with the monitor acting like a window on a much larger screen. 
>>> Moving the mouse to the edges displays everything, but I'm not 
>>> seeing everything at once.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got a working xorg.conf for this monitor?
>>>
> I tried using "Generic LCD 1680x1050" and any setting that puts the 
> width at 1600 or greater screws up.  I wonder if the problem is the 
> Intel graphics controller.  The monitor reports being in various modes 
> like 1024x768, despite the setting in xorg.conf.
>
I have an nvidia card and am using the "nvidia" binary driver. If the 
"screen resolution" setting did not work I don't really know what you 
could try next, maybe swap graphics cards to see if that is the problem, 
maybe your current card cannot handle that resolution, maybe try in 16 
bit mode "DefaultDepth    16" in xorg.conf, xdpyinfo may give some extra 
info on what resolution is running.

Serge