Okay, I know questions like this get asked all the time, but, believe me, I've done hours of research, and nothing has helped. Maybe someone can give me the answer or at least a fresh perspective, please?
I installed Fedora 3 on a Toshiba P25 laptop. It has a 17" widescreen at 1440x900 and a 32mb Geforce card of some type. The "nv" drivers wouldn't allow me to use that resolution, even when it was in the appropriate place in the xorg.conf file. It always defaulted to a lower one. If i remove all other resolutions except 1440x900 from xorg.conf, gnome appears to start, but the monitor displays either nothing or rows of white lines. This happens in 16 and 24 color modes.
I installed the nvidia drivers, which went well, but these drivers refuse to allow any resolution above 1280x1024.
Is there something special I need to do to allow "nonstandard" resolutions? I was thinking of putting a modline in the conf file, but I have been unable to find any information whatsoever about my monitor.
The relevant portion of my xorg.conf:
Code:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1440x900"
HorizSync 31.5 - 100.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Thanks for your help.