dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg question

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

I have a kubuntu-6.06 LTS machine running my milling machine that 
occasionally needs maintenance, such as for a failed Antec power supply.

Yeah, I know, why did I buy that brand?  Cuz I was a dummy, plain & simple.

Anyway, while working on it I had it hooked to a 20" crt monitor, and the 
subject command line gave me a stunningly good 1920x12xx display on that crt.
One of the things I was playing with was the video card as the old TNT in it 
was looking like a bad solder joint, streaks on the right side of a 1050x720 
screen.  So I thought great!  This was by using the digital to vga adapter 
that came with the x1650 Pro agp video card and I was happy as I'd finally 
found a motherboard that could run this card, the card is one picky bitch 
about its agp socket.

On the way back to its normal job, I plugged in a samsung hidef 22" tv which 
has a db15 input and which works very well on another machine with 8.04 LTS 
on it.  Its native mode is also 1920xsomething with a 16x9 aspect ratio.

The 6.06 LTS install couldn't drive it without re-running the subject line & 
came up with a 800x600 screen that was pretty badly rendered on that much 
higher resolution lcd display.  As its normal 17" samsung crt monitor is also 
similarly crippled when using the vesa driver (I forgot, that is a 
requirement of the application, vesa is the only driver that doesn't 
seriously muck with the real time performance), so my question after all this 
rambling is:

Is there a place where I can force the issue?  I feel its probably occurring 
because the EDID database is too old for either of the monitors it miss-
drives.  They are not listed when the gui tool is used.

 I know that smaller 17" samsung monitor can be driven at something in the 
over 1400 pixels wide mode by the makers worthless proprietary drivers.  An 
800x600 screen sucks the big #1 for this app.  Particularly when I know this 
card and either monitor are capable of much much better performance while 
still running the vesa driver.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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