screen resolution

[chris]

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 00:33 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:55 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: 
> > On 03/26/2011 09:50 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 16:29 +1300, chris wrote:
> > >> Hi,
<snip>
> and when I wrote out the xorg.conf file, it dutifully asked for my
> passwd for permission to write the file. Bingo. Absolutely painless. Ric
> 

No, I have not gotten it resolved.  Health issues have gotten in the
way.
Also I suspect that the nvidea drivers are not comparable with the video
card.  A geeforce fx500

Jockey wants to install the 173 driver, which then fails causes the
system to default into failsafe graphics and refuses to run x at all.

Needless to say grrrrrrrrr xp has no problem with this card, and runs at
the native resolution of 1600 x1200.

I have two systems  running on this monitor, one is an hp workstation p4
with a sapphire radeon card which runs perfectly at native resolution.
Copying the simple xorg.conf across to the other system fails to make
any difference.
  cheers chris