nvidia-drivers-177.80 (possibly other versions too - haven't tried) creates virtual screen size of 1440x1280 on a 1440x900 display when 1280x1024 is specified in the xorg.conf - no virtual screens entered in xorg.conf. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "1440x900_60 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 720x400 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0; 640x350 +0+0"" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Reproducible: Always
1) Please post your `emerge --info' too. 2) Please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Created attachment 173390 [details] Xorg.0.log
emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r2-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_CPU_E1400_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:32:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage/layman/devnull /home/todd/.portage-local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa arts berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam firefox flash fortran freetype gdbm gif gimp gpm gstreamer hal htmlhandbook iconv isdnlog jpeg kde libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Outdated, version out of tree by now.