Widescreen monitor support?

I was recently gifted with a Dell 20" widescreen monitor that I'd like to use with my G4 running 10.2.8. I can't figure out how to create a monitor setting that will pixelate properly.
Any ideas/help? This is my spare graphics machine, so if the monitor is out of proportion, it's useless.
Thanks in advance!

A few months ago I purchased a ViewSonic 22" wide-screen monitor and quickly found the better choice of resolution came when using the monitor's VGA port instead of its DVI port. When on DVI, only the native res 1680x1050 gave "normal" aspect ratios; every other resolution left icons somewhat distorted. The problem for me was that, at 1680X1050, the text on most web sites was too small for my aging eyeballs.
Under VGA (and the video adaptor that came with the G4 MDD), I now routinely run at 1440x900 and get a happy combination of adequate text size and plenty of desktop real estate.
See if your Dell monitor has both DVI and VGA ports.

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