Re: Problems with wide screen and GNOME

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Hello
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:15 -0700, MHR wrote:> I am running a (fully updated) CentOS 5.2 x86_64 box that has been> working just fine for over a year, with a few minor glitches (like> this one?) here and there.> > I just picked up an Emprex LE22A3 (21.6" 1680x1050 WSXGA) monitor and> tried to get it work nicely with my system, and it works fine until I> login to GNOME.> > During the boot, all the way up to and including the login screen, I> get the full 1680x1050 resolution, and also on the secondary consoles.> > However, when I login to my GNOME desktop, the screen gets reset to> 1280x1024 and refuses to work in widescreen mode at all.> > I've run through every scenario I (and some of the CentOS list folks)> can think of, all kinds of tweaks to xorg.conf, even downloaded the> latest and greatest nvidia driver, and every time, without fail,> during the blackout between the login screen and the desktop, the> video gets reset.  I've tried using system-config-display and manual> tweaks, and nothing seems to shake this.  I've even rebooted (in case> it was a kudzu related thing), but no.  S-c-d shows that the monitor> is a "Generic LCD 1680x1050", but even after it sets the mode up for> 16x10, it goes back to 1280x1024.  I even set it so that the only mode> listed in the Modes in xorg.conf is "1680x1050" and no go.> > I went through and manually deleted all the older nvidia driver files> to make sure there was no confusion (although I'm not sure this> actually made a difference).> > Is there anything I'm missing?  Some other configuration file or> record somewhere I need to tweak?with gconf-editor, check "/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution" .

> > Thanks.> > mhr> _______________________________________________> gnome-list mailing list> gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list-- Ritesh KhadgarayPh: +919970164885Desktop LinuX N Stuff, RHCESoftware Maintenance Engineer, Pune, Red Hatॐ मणि पद्मे हूँEat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.

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