It seems that my issues are caused by not xorg. Nor nvidias drivers, but by xfce4. Sounds odd but it is true.
Something appears to be wrong with its resolution/display manager. I can use its settings to set the resolution back to 1600x1200, however it completely ignores the virtual, which drives me nuts. So I'm sitting in kde 3.5 now, till that's resolved. I updated xfce4, no change. Thanks for the replies! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
