Re: GDM & LCD monitor

[Adam Jaskiewicz <ajjaskie@xxxxxxx>]

Jacob Fugal wrote:
> I have an 1600x1200 LCD monitor and a 19" (1280x1024) CRT monitor each
> connected to an NVidia FX 5200 card. I can get the CRT monitor to work
> fine on its maximum resolution. But I can only get the LCD monitor
> (connected with the DVI cable) to only work at 1024x768 and below. It
> turns out that 1024x768 is the resolution it loads to at boot up (looking
> at on-screen display monitor information thingy). When I try switching the
> screen resolution down using the Gnome Screen Resolution tool, the monitor
> reports no change in input resolution.

Look up the horizontal and vertical sync ranges for your monitor, and hard code 
them into the XFree86Config file. See if that helps.

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