Can Lion detect 1920x1200 screen resolution?

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I own a MacBook Pro, 17", MA897D/A, A1229, Mid 2007, with a display resolution of 1920x1200 which worked seamlessly under 10.4.

As I upgraded to Lion I sadly noticed that the maximum resolution now is 1680x1050.

Did anybody experience similar behaviour? Is Lion unable to detect the native resolution? Are there any 'power settings' I could use?

I am assuming you have the optional 17" Wide SCreen TFT. The standard spec for the 2007 17" only supports 1680x1050, however, the optional TFT does support 1920x1200. Specs here and here
Have you booted in safe mode and gone to the System Information app - chosen Window - About this Mac and made sure the OS itself is reading the Display correctly. You do get 90 days of phone/online service support and you might get the fastest answer by calling on Apple to get to the bottom of this if the drivers didn't install / operate correctly.
That is correct. Your monitor's native resolution is 1680x1050 (as Diago has pointed out). Lion is operating normally.
No, Diago and cksum. As I pointed out the native resolution of 1900x1200 works on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Richard · Answer 1 · 2011-10-27 20:34:25Z

The current 17" MacBook Pro which ships with Lion also has a native resolution of 1920 x 1200:

My guess is Making a new user or booting into safe mode will help you sort out whether something got munged in your user account in the Lion install.

His MBP is not the current model, it is one from 2007 which did offer a high-res screen.

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