Wrong monitor resolution

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I have a monitor that is always acting up. It’s a 19" monitor with resolution 1440x900, but both linux and win7 thinks it’s 1400x1050. I there for have an xorg.conf that I know work, so I copy it to /etc/X11/ when I’ve installed a new distrousualy 4 times a year when a new ubuntu is released, and a few days later when I’ve grown tired of it and reinstall opensuse :stuck_out_tongue: But, for some reaseon, in opensuse 11.2, it dosent ive me the correct resolution, neither in Configure Desktop or in the nvidia screen config utility.

Any input would be apresheated :slight_smile:

Vaga

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From a post 2 steps down I did:
#cvt 1440 900
cvt 1440 900
Modeline “1440x900_60.00” 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync

#xrandr --newmode “1440x900_60.00” 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync

#xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 50.0* 51.0 52.0
832x624 53.0
800x600 54.0 55.0 56.0 57.0
700x525 58.0 59.0
640x480 60.0 61.0 62.0
512x384 63.0 64.0
400x300 65.0
320x240 66.0 67.0
1440x900_60.00 (0x18a) 106.0MHz
h: width 1440 start 1528 end 1672 total 1904 skew 0 clock 55.7KHz
v: height 900 start 903 end 909 total 934 clock 59.6Hz

“maximum 1024 x 768” Is not correct for my monitor :frowning:

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I got it working by:

  1. enter sax monitor config and add my monitor(it dos not have ccd).
  2. Use sax to create a config file(This fails but I manualy copy it to /etX11/
  3. Then I added the modline from my old config file? And WOLA, I have 1440x900 available in nvidia config. (Stil noting in desctop config, but its ok, I have my configuration).
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Good work. I see similar posts re incorrect display modes from time to time. This approach might work for others. :slight_smile: