Re: monitor size not supported?

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:40:44 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote:
> 
> I just got a new lcd monitor that seems to be working fine but there is
> one slight problem.
> 
> The monitor is an LG W2040T with 1600x900 resolution so I added
> "1600x900" to the Modes line of the Display SubSection. When X starts I
> get a message from the monitor that the optimum resolution is 1600x900.
> X is setting the screen size to 1280x1024.
> 
> This difference results in circular objects being more oval than
> circular. I can live with this as I do little graphics work but I'm
> wondering if there's something I can change to get my circles to be
> circles.
> 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log has the line:
> 
> (II) CHROME(0): Not using mode "1600x900" (no mode of this name)
> 
> I'm using the openchrome driver since I have a KM400 motherboard which
> has the VIA chipset.
> 
> Did I get the wrong monitor?

Please post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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