Can't get a good resolution with nVidia card.

[Alexander Toresson]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
<morten at technographer.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:01:06 +0100
> "Olivier Fourdan" <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
>> <morten at technographer.net> wrote:
>> > On a different note, because it is actually relevant to the
>> > discussion: Where does the Display section get the resolutions
>> > offered? It suggests 640x480 and 800x600 to me - and those settings
>> > don't even exist in my xorg.conf.
>>
>> It gets it from xrandr
>>
>> xrandr -q should give similar results.
>
> Curiously, it doesn't. It suggests 1024x768, too.
> Where does RandR get the information from?
>

>From Xorg using the RANDR extension, and so does the display settings.
I bet your "Default" entry in the display settings is the 1024x768
resolution.

// Alexander
// Alexander