Forcing LCD resolution - where's the love?

[Dax Kelson]

I'm currently suffering with a DVI connected 1600x1200 LCD that Xorg
(6.9/7.0) only refuses to run at 1280x1024.

The error is:
'Mode "XXXXxYYYY" is larger than BIOS programmed panel size

I am not alone with this problem. There are other people with 1680x1050
LCDs that Xorg will only run at 720x400 (egad!).

Yesterday, Bing Ho sent a message to this list "Cannot set resolution
1680x1050 for Intel 915".

This bug has been reported many times in lots of different bug trackers,
for example:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4314
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162011

Apparently the binary Nvidia drivers have an option you can set to
ignore the BIOS programmed panel size.

Ideally Xorg could have such an option (and be able to use it with all
Xorg shipped drivers).

I'm sure myself and other Xorg users would really appreciate any
developer love that could be applied towards this bug.

Thanks!

Dax Kelson
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