Need help with Nvidia Driver on a 1680x1050 display

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/20/04

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    I've been trying to get the latest Nvidia driver to work on my Compaq
    R3000z Athlon 64 laptop. I'm running 64 bit Fedora Core 3 with
    the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel. The screen size is 1680x1050 which seems to be
    the source of my problem, The Nvidia driver doesn't seem to understand
    that size. The Xorg drivers work fine and I was able to use an earlier
    version of the Nvidia drivers (what ever was current back in August) but
    the last two releases haven't worked. My screen is white pixels on one
    side and grey on the other. Here is my xorg.conf, does anyone see anything
    wrong here?

    # XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config

    Section "ServerLayout"
            Identifier "Default Layout"
            Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
            InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
            InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"

    # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
    # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
    # no need to change the default.
    # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
    # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
    # the X server to render fonts.
            RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
            FontPath "unix/:7100"
    EndSection

    Section "Module"
            Load "dbe"
            Load "glx"
            Load "extmod"
            Load "freetype"
            Load "type1"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier "Monitor0"
            VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
            ModelName "LCD Panel 1680x1050"
            HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
            VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
            Option "dpms"
            UseModes "16:10"
    EndSection
    Section "Modes"
       # 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz
       Modeline "1680x1050" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
       # Here we define 16:10 modes
       Identifier "16:10"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
            Identifier "Videocard0"
            Driver "nvidia"
            VendorName "Videocard vendor"
            BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
    # Option "backingstore" "1"
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
            Identifier "Screen0"
            Device "Videocard0"
            Monitor "Monitor0"
            DefaultDepth 24
            SubSection "Display"
                    Viewport 0 0
                    Depth 24
                    Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
            EndSubSection
    EndSection

    Section "DRI"
            Group 0
            Mode 0666
    EndSection

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