Laptop Display Help Needed (1400 x 1050)

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Toshiba Satellite 5105-S501 Display Help (Need 1400x1050 Res)

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So I'm a complete beginner - appropriate forum I guess - and this weekend I installed Unbuntu on my old laptop hoping for a new look and maybe some better performance or whatever.
I got it up and running fine with the original basic video card driver, but I wanted the 3d acceleration so I tried to install the nvidia driver. Upon initially installing the driver it gave me striped white-ish screen that just turned more white. I have read that this may have been a refresh rate problem. I searched the internet a bit and came up with this

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=170126&highlight=5105-S501

I followed that guide but now I have a problem where I've got a 50hz refresh rate and a max resolution of 1024x768 and I can't stretch it to fill the screen - it's got like a two inch black border across the whole screen.
More searching on the internet has shown me that this seems to be a common problem with my videocard and resolution in ubuntu.
I know that I need to get my output to 1400x1050 with a 60hz refresh. I have tried editing my xorg.conf quite a bit but I have no real idea what else to do other than the examples on the net.

Some seem to show that you can edit your edid .bin file to allow for the right res, but I don't know how to do that. I would love it if someone could help me out and get my display working properly. Thanks.

I'll post my xorg.conf file below.


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Tue Jan 22 19:53:46 PST 2008

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "ModeValidation" "DFP-0: NoEdidMaxPClkCheck, NoEdidDFPMaxSizeCheck"
Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050"
EndSubSection
EndSection