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I have a dell D800 with a wuxga monitor. Being widescreen, the monitor needs to run at 1900x1200 rather than 1600x1200. When I installed linux the first time everything looked normal in X, but today I installed the nvidia drivers for my geforce 4200go and now it ALWAYS stretches the pixels. If I do 1600x1200 it stretches them, because it of course has to to fit that actual 1900x1200 pixels. However when I put X in 1900x1200 mode, the monitor still stretches the pixels, but when I move my mouse to the side it pans the desktop over the extra 300 pixels, and of course if I then move the mouse all the way to the left it pans back. It is really irritating and I can't figure out what happend. I only changed 1 setting in xorg.conf - driver from "nv" to "nvidia". Had anyone had a problem like this before?
Alright here it is: (by the way I am a noob, and I let XFdrake write my config file)
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "synaptics"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
Real Maybe? I looked in the xorg.conf information section though and nothing seems to fit there. http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.html I commented out all of the virtual lines and it stopped recognizing 1900x1200 as a valid resolution. It only goes up to 1600x1200 now. I am going to put it back and see what happens...
hm the modlines look right to me. can you print the xorg log file. it is huge and can be found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log i think it is in /var/log for sure.
Heres the wierd thing, when I run the computer at any other 16:10 ratio it doesnt scroll to the side. It only occurs with 1920x1200. I am thinking it is probobly a monitor driver issue, so im going to try and find a monitor driver for a laptop =/ We'll see. I dont think very many people opted for wuxga on their laptops so this is probobly a rare problem. I tried mode instead of virtual and it does the same thing. Here is my log: actually I need to be in root, so next one will have log.
Fixed! OK so I read online at a guys webpage how he had his Xfree file setup. I took all the parts that looked applicable and added them to mine. What I ended up with is this file. Which works. My guess at the key that fixed it was the statement:
Option "FlatPanelProperties" "aspect-scaled". So anyway, in case this happens to someone else here is my file, hope it helps.
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "synaptics"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection
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