[CentOS] Widescreen monitor won't configure to a wide screen

[B.J. McClure]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 20:55 -0700, MHR wrote:

> 
> Any suggestions?  It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
> be able to use it....
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> mhr
> 
> 
> What am I missing?

Not sure but here is my xorg.conf if you care to try it.  Viewsonic 2200
series at 1680x1050 with nv driver.

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "1400x1050"
"1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

HTH.

B.J.

CentOS 5.2, Linux 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 athlon 06:19:08 up 20:16, 2 users,
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