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

[Alfred von Campe]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 23:55, MHR wrote:

> Any suggestions?  It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
> be able to use it....

Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and  
then possibly tweak it by hand later).  Or try the following  
xorg.conf file which works for me an autodetects any type of display  
I've attached to my CentOS systems, including wide screens:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder63)  Mon May 19  
00:33:37 PDT 2008

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier     "Default Layout"
     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     # generated from default
     Identifier     "Mouse0"
     Driver         "mouse"
     Option         "Protocol" "auto"
     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

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

Section "Monitor"
     Identifier     "Monitor0"
     VendorName     "Unknown"
     ModelName      "Unknown"
     HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
     VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
     Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Videocard0"
     Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Screen0"
     Device         "Videocard0"
     Monitor        "Monitor0"
     DefaultDepth    24
     SubSection     "Display"
         Viewport    0 0
         Depth       24
     EndSubSection
EndSection