On 10/12/2012 00:31, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:38:06AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> > On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote:
>>> > > one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my
>>> > > Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's
>>> > > something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs
>>> > > 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a
>>> > > videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and
>>> > > giving
>>> > > it to the video?
>> > Do you have a DVI connector on your current graphics card, or just the
>> > old style VGA connector? Pretty much all modern widescreen monitors
>> > will have a DVI connector as well as the legacy VGA.
> actually, I have both. the KVM dates from 2010 and came with
> four cables and eight plugs.
Ahah! You're using a KVM switch. That can block the monitor from
sending its configuration information to the X server. It's easy to
tell: just try connecting directly to the monitor temporarily.
If that works, you can use xrandr to extract the monitor details, write
a mode line for your xorg.conf and put the KVM back in the loop, while
keeping the optimum configuration.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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