Screen resolution restrictions in centos with nvidia

vern1429 · 08-26-2011, 09:17 AM

I'm running centos 5.2 on two HP laptops (8530w and 8740w) with nvidia, and trying to get TwinView to work with an HP LCD monitor.

On the 8530, I can use nvidia-settings to set CRT-0 to 1280x1024 and things look great. But on the 8740, the max resolution I can select is 800x600. What controls the selectable resolutions in nvidia-settings?

Both machines have identical xorg.conf files and are running the same nvidia driver.

Thanks

kabars_edge · 09-26-2011, 01:19 PM

I had this problem when I upgraded from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy. I would recommend specifically designating what type of monitor you have. My issue came from nvidia-settings have my flat panels listed as generic crts.

HTH,