Linux Screen Resolution

[trigggl]

Yes, I did.. Took me a ton of googling, and sifting thru about a trillion threads on various message boards. Ended up having to use a couple of settings in xorg.conf i never een knew existed:

Section "Monitor"
    DisplaySize       337 269
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Option       "DPI"     "96x96"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

There's more in there, but I edited it out for brevity. I did try manually installing the nvidia driver (version 195 is installed by default from Mint9). But there was no change using v250. So I removed it, and went back to the default version, and continued tinkering with xorg.conf. I was so happy when I finally had 1280x1024, which, btw, is a 5:4 AR, not the usual 4:3 or 16:9 used by most displays....

I guess I could have posted my own the other day.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Fri Aug 14 17:54:58 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "en_US"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option         "Coolbits" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[KaoticEvil[SETI.USA]]

Yeah.. DId you notice the DisplaySize directive in my post? That's the size in millimeters of my actual screen.. I never even knew there was such a thing.. I could solve all of these X problems if i replaced the VGA cable on my monitor.. But that's too mcuh work lol