Monitor Resolution

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently purchased an Acer X223W 22" monitor. The monitor looks and
> works great with my MAC or Windows, but for the life of me I can not
> get it to function at full resolution (1680x1050) with linux. I'm
> running Kubuntu Ibex with an Nvidia 8600 GTS card and using the Nvidia
> 180.29 driver. I'm not a real xorg guru, but I at least have an idea
> of what things do what, but I just can't get this setup to run at full
> res - I get 1024x768.
>
> Can anyone give me some help getting this configured correctly to use
> the 1680x1050 resolution?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Brian
>
> Here is a copy of my xorg.conf
>

<removed>

> Section "Screen"
>    Identifier     "Screen0"
>    Device         "Device0"
>    Monitor        "AcerX223W"
>    DefaultDepth    24
>    Option         "TwinView" "0"
>    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"

This must be an error. I guess that your monitor is not an CRT
monitor? So for you it would be DFP-0 instead of CRT-0.
Also check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors.

/ Jonas