fixing font tininess running nv driver

[Matt Price]

hi,

on my new laptop (dell latitude d820, nvidia graphics) my gigantic
17" (didn't realize how huge that was) screen is very crisp, and looks
great if i run the proprietary nvidia driver.  however that driver
doesn't suspend properly, and since suspend is essential...  i use nv.
and when i run nv, all fonts display very cramped and tiny.  in some
apps it's no sweat to make fonts bigger etc, but in others it's harder.
my sense is that i need to do something to the screen resolution or
something, but the gnome screen res tool won't atually let me change the
resolution (maybe 'cause the lcd monitorsreally only have one native
resolution?)  

anyway, i feel it ought to be possible to fix this, any suggestions?

matt