Video card resolution question

[David A. Bandel]

Folks,

As a follow up to a previous post, some of you may remember I bought a
new wide screen monitor.  It's a LG Flatron L192WS (a 19" wide screen)
-- yep, a real cheapie for the kids -- I plan to buy a 22" WS soon.

Anyway, my motherboard's VGA support basically stinks, so after asking
what I thought was a simple question on this forum and receiving a
confusing alphabet soup answer to my question, I decided I'd just pick
up a graphics card (the one I chose was cheap enough).

The card in question is an nVidia e-GeForce 7200GS (PCI-Express) 128Mb
DDR TV-out, DVI, VGA, blah blah blah card.  It performs beautifully.
After setting it up, I also installed the nVidia kernel drivers, but
they don't seem to do anything (as far as I can tell).

Getting to the point:  after reconfiguring the xorg.conf (the
nvidia-xsetting utility didn't work, but the xorg configure worked
fine), I fired up the X server.  It went straight to the recommended
1440x900 at 60Hz setting.  However, that first setting looked terrible --
the Xserver only ran on the right 3/4 of the screen.  I hit
<Ctrl>+<Alt>+<+> and got another 1440x900 at 60Hz setting.  But this one
was shrunken in on both sides and the fonts looked like the devil.  So
I tried one more time -- and as they say, third time's a charm -- it
is absolutely beautiful.  Checked the screen again and I saw
1440x900 at 60Hz.

Now, at every X server restart, I have to hit <Ctrl>+<Alt><+> twice.

Is there any way to tell what exactly is the difference in the three
1440x900 at 60Hz settings and how I can tell xorg.conf to go to the third
one first and loose the other settings?

Go gentle.  I really am a CLI kinda guy and a bunch of alphabet soup
that even Google can't help me sort out is no help at all.

TIA,

David A. Bandel
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