On Wed, May 2, 2007 2:00 pm, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I have a similar problem as the OP. I'm trying to configure a Dell > 2407WFPb LCD monitor at its native resolution of 1920x1200 on CentOS > 4.4 system. But I could only get to 1600x1200 in system-config- > display. If I manually edit the xorg.conf file to include 1920x1200 > and restart the X server, that resolution disappears from the > xorg.conf file. > > CentOS doesn't know about the 2407WFPb; the closest is the 2405FPW, > so I manually set it to use this. Looking at the specs for these two > monitors, they seem to have the exact same horizontal and vertical > frequencies for 1920x1200 (74.0 kHz and 60.0 MHz), which are in the > range specified in xorg.conf. > > I've also tried to set the monitor to "Generic 1920x1200 LCD), but I > still don't get that mode as an option. I am offered 1920x1440, but > I don't think the monitor can support that. BTW, I am using the DVI > output of an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 card, and I am running the closed > source NVIDIA driver. > > Any thoughts on what I can try next to support the native 1920x1200 > resolution? I'm not a big fan of gui's cause the limitation is placed on the gui and not the program/application. Whenever I get time, I'm gonna start jumpin in and hack'n till its fixed. ;-> I use linux and solaris for server comand line mode usually. Once in a while I try various Linux flavors for my main home desktop use, but I usually go back to you know what cause my patience is lost. But it does seem to be getting better. Some day.