screen resolution (Solved)

[chris]

On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 23:50 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:49 +1200, chris wrote: 
> > On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 22:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 11:07 +1200, chris wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Writing xorg files just seem to be ignored.
> > > > 
> > > > Ideas please before I go completely insane
<snip>
> > will give that ago, and get back to you.
> > With the nvidia driver the screen res drops back to 320x200!
> 
> I hope that works for you, it would have me pulling my hair out. :) Ric
> 
> 
Hi Ric, Got it sorted, but for the future here is how I did it.

Went to old Sanyo multisync E200 crt monitor
Installed 10.04
Set resolution to 2180x960  (default for this monitor

Installed nvidia drivers appropriate for the video card Gforce 5200
Nvidia 173 driver.
Shutdown completely 
Rebooted 
using the nvidia settings tool set the screen resolution to 1680x1050
4:3  to use my Viewsonic Monitor.

Shutdown 

Set up with Viewsonic Monitor

Voilà correct resolution and hertz.  All sweet.

And here is the bonus.  Hooked up my kvm switch, so I can  flip between
my 4 machines  Voilà.

So this method works for kvm switches as well.  Might be brute force but
all is sweet.

-- 
Cheers the kiwi