Re: Dell Latitude D800 w/ NVIDIA driver on Sarge, trouble setting resolution to 1920x1200

[Laurent CARON <lcaron@apartia.fr>]

Ralph Seichter wrote:

> I've successfully installed the latest NVIDIA driver on a Dell
> Latitude D800 running Debian Sarge, but now I'm struggling with the
> screen resolution. The D800 LCD monitor has a unusual resolution of
> 1920x1200, and manually adding this mode to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> did not seem to help. The screen dimension is 1600x1200, but it is
> being stretched to the full monitor size.
>
> I also tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree82", but I there is no
> 1920x1200 resolution which I could choose (only 1920x1440 pixels are
> available, which is too big). Are there some configuration options
> which I overlooked?
Hello

Same problem for me with an ati card on a dell 9100

Had to switch to X.Org to solve it

Regards,