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After tiring of my 19" LCD monitor, I recently treated myself to a Dell 3007WPF monitor -- that's 30" of LCD goodness! However, I had to resort to manual configuration to get the full 2560x1600 pixel resolution; the Suse configuration tool wouldn't let me get it into the full hi-rez mode, even with the Dell support disk with monitor profile. But, no worries, this is Linux and it is trivial to configure manually. Here's all it takes...

I simply edited the "Monitor" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows:

Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  646 404
  HorizSync    30-100
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "DELL 3007WFP"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "DELL"
  VertRefresh  56-76
  Modeline "2560x1600" 268 2560 2608 2640 2720 1600 1603 1609 1646
EndSection

...then restarted X (log out and back in) and I was good to go.

FYI, my system configuration:

monitor

Dell 3007FWP

graphics card

XFX GeForce 7600GS 256MB DDR2 Dual DVI PCI-Express

OS

OpenSuse 10.1 Linux

M/B

Asus AN32 SLI Deluxe

CPU

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+

RAM

2GB

Disk

4 x 250GB SATA II

If you have the opportunity to step up to a 30" LCD I heartily recommend it -- it is wonderful to have so much information on screen at once.