16:10 widescreen, 1440x900 resolution support

[Lee Howard]

Hello everyone.

I have an Acer AL1916W widescreen LCD monitor and an NVIDIA GeForce2 
GTS/GeForce2 Pro video card, and I am trying to get the display 
resolution correct on Fedora Core 4.

As I understand it, I have two driver options: the x.org drivers and the 
Nvidia legacy drivers.

When using the x.org drivers and using the "System Settings -> Display" 
control there is no option for 1440x900 resolution.  The closest is 
1400x1050.  This works tolerably well, but the aspect ratio is not 
exactly correct because the display is squished and stretched to fit the 
visible screen correctly.  Also, this causes the image to not be as 
crisp as I believe it should be, I think, as there seems to be portions 
of the screen that are slightly fuzzy in comparison to others.  I 
suspect that if the video resolution matched the display resolution that 
there would be no patterns of slightly fuzziness on the LCD.

When using the Nvidia legacy drivers likewise there isn't an option for 
1440x900, and (if I remember correctly) 1400x1050 is also the closest 
match.  When using that driver that way the desktop actually then 
becomes larger than the visible screen... and so I have to scroll the 
window on the desktop display back and forth by moving the pointer to 
the edges of the screen in order to scroll the image.  I didn't notice 
any fuzziness this way, but the screen scrolling is entirely intolerable 
in my opinion.

Is there a way to get true 1440x900 display resolution from the drivers 
using this video card?  Or, do I need to get a different video card 
hardware that supports that resolution natively?  And if that is the 
case, how do you suggest I determine that support without actually 
purchasing it and testing it?

Thanks,

Lee.