Need help with new monitor

[mike ledoux]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:26:02PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> Lots of good stuff going on. Nothing is working exactly the way I'd like 
> it to. The closest I've gotten is
> 
> http://steveo.syslang.net/XF86Config-4
> 
> which gives me a display of the desired 1440x900 but is for some 
> mysterious reason yielding a virtual display of 1440x1024. I can push the 
> display up and down to see the missing bits. Is there some directive that 
> will lock the virtual display to be the same as physical? The one I put up 
> on the web does use a modeline that I got which is supposed to be right 
> for the 1440x900. I have no idea where the 1024 is coming from.
> 
> Anyone?

It is coming from the "1280x1024" mode you've left in the display
subsection--X.Org uses the largest setting in each dimension from
all of the modes to choose the virtual display size.  Remove it and
your virtual display will be the same dimensions as your physcal.

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