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

[MHR]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com> wrote:
>
> Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
> possibly tweak it by hand later).
That's where I started....

> 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
>

No help, but it was worth a shot....

mhr