sounds like a need to tweak the refresh setting in xorg. <br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "Monitor0"<br> VendorName "Unknown"<br> ModelName "Unknown"<br> HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0<br>
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0<br> Option "DPMS"<br>EndSection<br><br>This is a 19" LCD from viewsonic (va912b). I have seen that the screens farther from 1024x768 format are much harder to get tuned well for Xorg. I think part of the problem is the newer monitors no longer emit good data on query about formatting thus all the stupid "driver disks" for windows.<br>
<br>It would be nice if there was a clearly defined manner to input the screen dimensions in pixels as a starting point for the new, wide sizes (that are not standardized ANYWHERE).<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Christoper Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think this email may be a copy of one I sent last year.<br>
<br>
I decided today to install gOS on an Aopen Xcube and try it out. It<br>
has a Nvidia chip.<br>
<br>
When it finished I had a nice 20" widescreen LCD at 800x600!. I<br>
installed the drivers from the GUI and now it was down to 640x480!<br>
To fix this I copied xorg.conf from my shuttleX to this machine and<br>
finally I get 1680x1050.<br>
<br>
Last year when I did this install on my shuttleX I had to install<br>
Ubuntu 7.10 first so that xorg.conf was correct. I then had to<br>
to do the 8.04 update. If I installed 8.04 first then xorg.conf was<br>
broken. Apparently there is a movement in X to have the driver<br>
detect resolution at start instead of details in xorg.conf. IMO, this<br>
is truly broken. Especially with older hardware.<br>
<br>
It takes someone like me to fix this on my system. What about people<br>
installing gOS that have not had any exposure at all<br>
with Linux. Good Luck. Is this truly progress and I'm just doing<br>
things wrong?<br>
<br>
Another question. at 1680x1050 my fonts are a bit fuzzy. The<br>
Xcube as a chip with 32M mem dedicated. The shuttleX has an<br>
AGP card with 128m real memory. On shuttleX the fonts are crisp<br>
and everything is bright. on gOS it is dull and fuzzy. Possibly refresh<br>
rate is wrong or maybe I need to make a change in the preferences?<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
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