NVidia’s driver and resolution problems

Since I updated my Fedora Core 5’s X11 drivers to use the official nvidia driver (packaged by livna), I got a strange problem: the only supported resolution was 1680×1050, which is my widescreen LCD max resolution from my laptop. When I tried to play games like Armagetron and LBreakout2, the fullscreen wasn’t working because when the fullscreen mode is activated, the program automatically resize the X server resolution and scales the game to go fullscreen. But this wasn’t happening! Typing CTRL+ALT+[-/+] didn’t help either…

I tried many configurations, many. Looking at the Xorg logs (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) I realized that the problem was with something about the EDID checking and definying automatically the Horizonal and Vertical frequencies and resolution modes. So I found out that putting the option:

Option "UseEdidFreqs" "False"

In section "Device", I could manually define my modes. I hope this information could be useful for anyone.

My Xorg configuration

So this is my xorg.conf, containing the configuration for my laptop (which is a HP Pavilion zv5000, with GeForce 440 Go 64MB and a 15.4 Widescreen LCD).

• xorg.conf

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