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

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:58 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Something is resetting the video mode to 1280x1024 when GNOME comes up
> - is there any file other than xorg.conf that might cause this?

I'm not sure if this is related, but compiz won't do large
resolutions.  I had to switch to metacity to get gnome to run at >
1280x1024.  That was on my work laptop running ubuntu, though, so take
it with the appropriate grain of salt.