Gnome looks 4:3 on a my wide screen [SOLVED]

Hello!
I just installed Arch on my small Samsung Q45 notebook (with wide screen), and I'm having this curious problem with Gnome: even though X seems to stard at the correct resolution of 1280x800, Gnome panels do not fill up the full space.
An image is worth a thousand words so here we go:
http://www.italpro.net/images/gnome-strange.jpg
As you can see, the area at the right or at the bottom is perfectly usable, as I can move icons and windows there. However, the panels don't expand to fill it. This is probably due to a thing you can see in the screen resolution preferences dialog in the upper-right part of the screen: Gnome sees my screen as a 4:3 1024x768!!! Also it shows a weird refresh rate of 30hz.
Besides this problem, I can see everything perfectly well (readable chars, no flickers, perfect colours), so that must be a Gnome-related issue...?
Thanks,
Michele.
Last edited by lordarthas (2008-02-10 13:15:54)

Hello!
uastasi wrote:Take a look to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf at Monitor Section and try editing your refresh rate.
VertRefresh is set to:
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
which is a setting that doesn't even include the 30.0 that Gnome is showing me in the resolution preferences dialog. Moreover, I see things perfectly well, so I think X is correctly started at 1280x800@60Hz - it's just Gnome that seems to not be understanding that! Anyhow, I tried changing the above line to:
VertRefresh 60.0
but nothing really changes.
You can also switch to tty1 and see if it is an issue related to Gnome.
It is: on text terminals, and even with other X window managers, everything works. It's just Gnome (and it's related GDM) which size themselves wrongly.
Thanks,
Michele.

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