Hello all. I just hooked up a Dell 2007WFP monitor but I can only get a 1280x1024 resolution instead of the native 1680x1050, which makes the display look distorted.

There is also a 1400x1050 that I can select but at that resolution the bottom half of the screen shakes.

I tried using the following guide to get the monitor working at the native resolution with no luck: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Widescr...utions_(WSXGA)

I'm starting to think that perhaps my video card is too old to handle this higher resolution but according to its specs (http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon/aiwradeon/specs.html) it can handle resolutions up to 2048x1536, so it seems it should work. The only thing I do on this computer is programming and web browsing (i.e. nothing that requires heavy graphic processing) and I really love the card's TV tuner because it works out of the box under linux, so if possible I don't want to replace the video card.

If I could get this monitor to work w/o replacing my video card that would really make my day!

Some more info:

I am using the monitor's vga output combined with a VGA-to-DVI converter and am running Debian testing.

Here is the relevant section from my xorg.conf file:

<start>
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "FlatPanel"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-120
VertRefresh 60-85
Modeline "1680x1050" 148.5 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]"
Monitor "FlatPanel"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection
<end>

Solved it! Here's the modeline that made it work:

"1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089