Re: stretched screen

2011-12-01 Thread mz
On 11/30/2011 08:37 PM, Michael Havens wrote: I was playing a game and after I closed the game the screen was stretched. I tried 'system settings' but it was too basic. I googled 'linux mint 12 screen stretch' But that didn't tell me anything... Then I figured I would restart it and see if

Re: stretched screen

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Havens
well... what it did is make it look like a square monitor is in my wide screen. I'll try your method if it happens again. Thanks for the help. I know we're using different distros, but crtl+alt with + or - on the numbers pad works in openSuse. HTH, Mark Z.

Re: stretched screen

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Havens
lspci says this about the video: 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9804 'X.org video driver' is the only information I can find about the video driver On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: Drivers probably aren't working right

Re: stretched screen

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Butash
Go here, get the blob: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx Download to your home directory. Enable f-lock, Hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, sudo service lightdm stop to kill the desktop, sudo sh `ls ati*`, walk through it, reboot. After reboot just go into

stretched screen

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Havens
I was playing a game and after I closed the game the screen was stretched. I tried 'system settings' but it was too basic. I googled 'linux mint 12 screen stretch' But that didn't tell me anything... Then I figured I would restart it and see if that would fix it and it did. Any idea how I can fix

Re: stretched screen

2011-11-30 Thread James Mcphee
xrandr --auto ? On Nov 30, 2011 8:37 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I was playing a game and after I closed the game the screen was stretched. I tried 'system settings' but it was too basic. I googled 'linux mint 12 screen stretch' But that didn't tell me anything... Then I

Re: stretched screen

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Butash
Drivers probably aren't working right and probing the right resolutions from the display. Check your drivers in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log. What kind of video is it? If ati/nvidia, you'll want to install the proprietary blob drivers to get any level of performance and