G4 with 22-inch Viewsonic Monitor

My G4 desktop running 10.4.8 with Radeon 7500 card doesn't offer a native 1680x1050 display resolution for my new Viewsonic VX2235wm (22-inch) display. ATI does not have a driver for this OEM card, and referred me to this site. Suggestions?
G4 Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Try DisplayConfigX <http://www.3dexpress.de> or
switchResX <http://www.madrau.com>

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