Video card resolution question

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:55 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

startx -- -logverbose 5

and then look at the X log.  If you need more help, generate and
provide an nvidia-bug-report.log.


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