nVidia Widescreen no longer working

[Les Gray]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.02.2008, 15:35 +1000 schrieb Simon:
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> The issue I'm now having is that on every restart the login window and 
> my desktop default back to a poor 800x600 resolution.  I can reset this 
> to 1280x800 by selecting System -> Administration -> Screens and 
> Graphics but is there a way to make the default resolution remain at 
> 1280x800?
> 
> Below is my xorg.conf file that works with 1280x800.

Your xorg.conf seems needlessly complicated IMHO. If you're running one
display you only need one of each section (except for
keyboard/mouse/touchpad), plus you don't need a ServerFlags section. 

Below are the sections I think you should remove or comment out for a
one display system. Don't forget to leave a blank line at the end of the
file, btw.

> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "monitor1"
>     Vendorname    "Plug 'n' Play"
>     Modelname    "Plug 'n' Play"
>   modeline  "640x480 at 60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
>     Gamma    1.0
> EndSection

> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "device1"
>     Boardname    "vesa"
>     Busid        "PCI:0:5:0"
>     Driver        "nvidia"
>     Screen    1
> EndSection
> 
> # Section "Screen"
> 
> #
> #    Identifier    "screen1"
> #    Device        "device1"
> #    Monitor        "monitor1"
> #    Defaultdepth    24
> #    SubSection "Display"
> #        Depth    24
> #        Modes        "640x480 at 60"
> #    EndSubSection
> # EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
> EndSection
> Section "device" #
>     Identifier    "device2"
>     Boardname    "vesa"
>     Busid        "PCI:0:5:0"
>     Driver        "nvidia"
>     Screen    1
> EndSection
> Section "screen" #
>     Identifier    "screen1"
>     Device        "device2"
>     Defaultdepth    24
>     Monitor        "monitor2"
> EndSection
> Section "monitor" #
>     Identifier    "monitor2"
>     Gamma    1.0
> EndSection
> 

If you do want to plug a second display in, uncomment the 'Screen 1'
section, remove/comment out 'ServerFlags', and make 'ServerLayout' look
like this -

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          0 "Screen0"
        Screen          1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
        Inputdevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection