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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
