Nicolas Linkert wrote:
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> I tried that, but it somehow did not work correctly. I cannot do it under X,
> and so I have to go single user. Ok, that's fine, but even when I chroot into
> /a it gave me an error message. In the end I used xorgconfig in order to get
> an xorg.conf for a start. I then changed rhe resolution in that file, and
> that's working. Funny thing is: nv is working (it supports 1680x1050), nvidia
> is only supporting 1280x1024. Huh? Since when is the nv driver "better" than
> the original one from nVidia???
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The NVIDIA driver validates modes against what it read from EDID.
If you start the Xorg server with "-logverbose 6", you can see why it
rejected 1680x1050.
