Letter box on 1680x1050 LCD while using nvidiafs driver 7382

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:33:30 -0400, Ross Maloney staggered into the Black Sun and said:

1400x1050, not 1680x1050. Since 1400x1050 is more "standard" than the odd resolution you mentioned, it's probable that X had a Modeline for that, and not for the LCD's native resolution. This isn't insanely difficult to fix; google:--gtf.c and compile it, then use gtf to generate an appropriate Modeline and stick it in your xorg.conf . Like so:

clairissa:~-bin$ gtf 1680 1050 60 Modeline "1680x105060.00" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync

...that'll *probably* work since LCDs behave like they want 60Hz Vrefresh.

It's "X" or "the X Window System" not "X Windows". The modules aren't really independent of the OS, but all X modules for 4.0 and higher are supposed to conform to the X 4 ABI.

Well, it works at least partially.

? I've been using them since they were in alpha testing (early 2000) and they have always worked pretty well, except for the pre-4.0 modules and build 6629.

The various nVidia chips share a bunch of functionality and have most of the same registers AFAIK. So it's not surprising that it worked at least partially. Anyway, try the Modeline-gtf approach first, then see what you get.

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