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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED
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Also, do you have a way to connect the monitor to a computer
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Subject: [CentOS] Widescreen monitor won't configure to a wide screen - SOLVED
Thanks to Ritesh Khadgaray:
Is there anything I'm missing?
MHR wrote:
Thanks to Ritesh Khadgaray:
Is there anything I'm missing? Some other configuration file or
record somewhere I need to tweak?
with gconf-editor, check /desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution .
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Yes ... there are 2 places to set this, one is controlled by the
resolution setting the other is controlled by the Display setting. They
are at System = Preferences = Screen Resolution and System =
Administration = Display in the Main Menu.
I had an identical problem at work yesterday with a
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes ... there are 2 places to set this, one is controlled by the resolution
setting the other is controlled by the Display setting. They are at System
= Preferences = Screen Resolution and System = Administration =
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[Lots removed]
What am I missing?
Did you get the latest drivers for
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On Tuesday 29 July 2008 9:55:50 pm MHR wrote:
I just put
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you get the latest drivers for your gfx-card from Nvidia?
FWIW, I have a same-rezed monitor as you do, and it works for me, both with
CentOS and RHEL3, but I had to download and install the newest proprietary
drivers
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:54 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you get the latest drivers for your gfx-card from Nvidia?
FWIW, I have a same-rezed monitor as you do, and it works for me, both with
CentOS and RHEL3, but
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I used to be able to fool s-c-d into using a generic CRT
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 20:55 -0700, MHR wrote:
Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
be able to use it
Thanks.
mhr
What am I missing?
Not sure but here is my xorg.conf if you care to try it. Viewsonic 2200
series at 1680x1050 with nv driver.
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On Jul 29, 2008, at 23:55, MHR wrote:
Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
be able to use it
Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and
then possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following
xorg.conf file which works for me
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
possibly tweak it by hand later).
That's where I started
Or try the following xorg.conf file which
works for me an autodetects any type of
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which
works for me an autodetects any type of display I've attached to my
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:58 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something is resetting the video mode to 1280x1024 when GNOME comes up
- is there any file other than xorg.conf that might cause this?
I'm not sure if this is related, but compiz won't do large
resolutions. I had to switch to
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:58 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which
works for me an
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:58 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which
works
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Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:36 PM
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About that generic CRT, have you by any chance tried generic lcd
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Bart Schaefer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if this is related, but compiz won't do large
resolutions. I had to switch to metacity to get gnome to run at
1280x1024. That was on my work laptop running ubuntu, though, so take
it with the appropriate
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:37 AM, William L. Maltby
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Keep in mind that I'm ignorant.
We all know that, Bill - that's why I'm here, too. (No, not your
ignorance, mine! :-)
You had mentioned earlier that it not only changed resolution, but
revereted to analog monitor.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if this is related to a problem I had, 1 or 2 years ago,
where system-config-display (?) said that it was updating xorg.conf,
but, in fact, it did not update it. Sometimes the GUIs do not work as
advertised.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dunno' what to tell you more. Most of the hints I told you have worked for me,
maybe somebody else can help you?
I appreciate your efforts - at least I've eliminated a lot of things
that are not the problem
mhr
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have some setting on your actual monitor-hardware you can tweak? You
know
how most lcd-monitors have auto-settings enabled. Maybe something there is
ducking with your x-configs?
I tried that this morning - nothing
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:08 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, do you have a way to connect the monitor to a computer running eg
Windows,
just to see it's CentOS and Gnome that's giving you grief and not the
hardware?
I can do that, but since it works up to the login in wide screen
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have KDE installed too? Does it do the same under KDE? Do you
have a Live CD for Knoppix or something, that you could boot and see
what happens?
Don't have kde, but I do have a live cd and I got a response on the
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:37 AM, William L. Maltby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You had mentioned earlier that it not only changed resolution, but
revereted to analog monitor. I don't know if this will help, but have
you run kudzu?
Actually, I did try that, and a reboot. No help there.
Thanks
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 9:55:50 pm MHR wrote:
I just put a 1680x1050 LCD monitor on my home system, and I went into
system-config-display to configure it as such, and it just won't take.
SNIP
Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
be able to use it
What
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