[vox-tech] monitor troubles

Jennifer Stickel vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:00:59 -0700


Yes it is an LCD monitor.  I tried running xvidtune and got the message 
"Video are not settable on this chip".  If I check the control center, 
it says that the screen size is 640x480 and has no other options for 
it.  How else can I up the resolution?
Thanks,

Jennifer

Mark K. Kim wrote:

>Is this an LCD monitor?  You probably have to up the resolution.  What's
>the current resolution on it?  You can run `xvidtune` to figure that out
>(check the "HDisplay" and "VDisplay" settings.)
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>-Mark
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>>Hi,
>>    I just installed linux on a desktop and am having trouble getting
>>the monitor to work.  It is a 12"x9" (15" diagonal) flat panel monitor
>>that works fine in WindowsXP.  However when I boot into linux and start
>>kde, I only get a 7.5"x5.5" window in the center with the xsession and
>>the rest of the screen is a silver color.  Any ideas on how to fix this?
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>>Jennifer
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