That was wierd. I had just did a PUP update of which an xorg update was included and when the system rebooted, my "normal" (1024x768) came up just fine. But when I opened up my firefox browser to test my svn repository, the screen blanked out and GDM "got lost" trying to find the FB. Ok, so I knew that my xorg.conf file must have gotten trashed yet again, (I diff'ed a saved backup) and sure enough it reverted by to that darn DefaultDepth 24. Sigh, my card and system is old - but geez when will the xorg group check these things before ram-rodding my xorg.conf file. Never mind, I have restore it. Well. The interesting thing here is that before, when I had determined that there was NO WAY I could get past the 1024x768 "barrier", and the display app was also saying the same thing but this time, I got more than I bargained for: I got a list beyond the 1024x768 "barrier" and the display app shows for "Thousands of Colors" adding 1152x768, 1280x720, and 1280x768. Well, that is all fine except that the screen looks really warpy beyond 1024x768 - that is, the aspect ratio is very odd looking. The question I have is, why can I not have something like 1024x1024 or other choices that "looks right"? Can someone point me to how I can check this out manually to see if I can "squeeze out" more than what xorg does "automagically"? I mean is there a way to manually test and maximize the video-chip's capability? I have a Cirrus GD-5480 onboard chipset and a CM715 Hitachi Monitor which can support up to 1600x1200@72Hz resolutions not that this video-chip could support it. Thanks- Dan
