I have a Gateway MX3225 laptop which has an S3 UniChrome Pro video card and a 1280x768 widescreen monitor. When I edit the xorg.conf and add in the default depth of 24 and mode of 1280x768, which is the resolution of my laptop's screen, it loads 1280x1024. When I add 1024x768 it displays at that resolution but is all skewed. It seems that xorg is ignoring the resolution that I placed in xorg.conf. I was wondering if anyone had any idea what could be causing xorg to be ignoring the Modes directive and displaying an improper resolution.

can you post the relevant sections from your xorg.conf file? ie for monitor, video card, display settings

I assume that Xorg does not display 1280x768 as a standard resolution because I added the following to the monitor section of my xorg.conf and now everything displays properly.

ModeLine "1280x768" 87.04 1280 1376 1488 1800 768 771 777 806