1680x1050 text console resolution

In case anybody cares :-),
I have set this line in the /boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/[MY DISK UID] ro vga=0x369
and now I have console with 1680x1050 resolution (that is native to my monitor)
I discovered this accidentally cause I had a wrong number for the vga and my system
complained about this error and suggested me the possible values :-)
So, I hope someone will find this usefull :-)

OK, I have found this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=481411 topic
about the same issue, so this is not as hot as I thought.
But, nevertheless, better twice than never ;-)

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max bytes/sec: 0
padding: 0
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biWidth 640
biHeight 360
biPlanes 1
biBitCount 24
biCompression 1145656920='XVID'
biSizeImage 691200
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cbSize: 12
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Yea i was using gdm, i don't know what i did, but it seems to work just fine now.

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