try opening up a terminal and type: xvidtune
adjust the sliders little by little and hit 'show'
paste what comes up in terminal into your xorg.conf file, save it and then
try it. (trial & error)
but be careful with 'xvidtune' because it says that it could damage your
monitor if you don't know what you're doing~
i'm having a similar problem. i just got a touch screen for my system and it
will display in 800x600 without any problems, but with 1024x768 it shows
'out of timing'
i played around with 'xvidtune' a bit and got 1024x768 to come up without
showing 'out of timing' on my monitor but part of the desktop can't be seen.
i need to do a bit of adjusting too~
please let me know if you find out some other way to fix this problem!
thanks,
Ryan
I just bought a new Acer AL22223W 22" monitor. Nice monitor indeed.
I have an Intel 915G video chipset in this machine. After much head
scratching I determined that I need to run 915resolution to patch the bios
so
it will support 1680x1050 resolution. Without it I couldn't get anything
more
than 1280x1024.
Therefore, I installed 915resolution and put this line
into /etc/sysconfig/915resolution:
# Mode to overwrite
RESOLUTION="58 1680 1050"
Now I have 1680x1050 running but the picture is about 1/8" too short for
the
monitor and about 1/2" too wide on both sides. I have a 1/8" black strip
at
the top and I'm missing about 1/2" of my desktop on both of the sides.
There doesn't appear to be a way to set the screensize directly on the
monitor. I know that some old CRT's used to have a "zoom" to make the
screen
fit, but maybe LCD's don't work that way.
The on-screen menu tells me that the monitor is running at 1680x1050, H70,
V64,
Analog input. So I guess I have the right resolution on the screen; the
desktop is just the wrong size.
I generated a modeline this way:
gtf 1680 1050 60
and I got this:
# 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz
Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054
1087
-HSync +Vsync
However, when I put that in as the last line in the "Monitor" section of my
xorg.conf, the login screen comes up huge and only partly there, and when I
log
in all I get is an error telling me that Nautilus can't start.
If I remove that line then everything works and I can log in at 1680x1050.
So I'm almost there. The resolution seems to be what it's supposed to be.
How
can I tell it to make my desktop taller and narrower so it will fit on the
screen?
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