i hate nvidia drivers

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 12 June 2008, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> If it makes you feel any better, I'm never able to get my setup
> working with the nvidia-settings package either.  I have a twinview
> setup on 2 21" CRT and I cannot ever get nvidia-settings to set the
> resolution any higher than 1024x768 even though I know they support
> 1600x1200.  I ended up going through the gentoo-wiki.com twinview
> sections and crafting my xorg.conf mostly by hand and keeping it
> backed up in case of reinstall.

Are you sure your NV card has enough memory to support two monitors at the 
higher resolution?

I have a 1920x1400 monitor but the card I have won't do better than 166x1200