I have an LG 206WTQ monitor that works fine with one PC that has an
Nvidia card and is running Kubuntu 6.06.
Other 2 PCs have ATI cards - Radeon 9200 in one, forget what is in
other. These PCs are running Kubuntu 6.10, and Kubuntu 7.10 (tribe 3
beta) and neither will give me a "proper" widescreen desktop using the
non-proprietory ati drivers.
I have tried various LiveCD distros - the latest being Fedora 7 -
including LinuxMint, Mepis, Knoppix etc and all have the desktop
positioned too far to the right - so far that about 1 1/2 inch strip
runs down the left of the 20 inch monitor. Using the monitors inbuilt
menu, the Desktop can be moved to the left but not far enough - a 1/4
inch or so of the desktops right side is still off screen. Fedora 7 is
worse, as both sides of the Desktop are off screen so that I cannot see
the icons in the right and left ends of the task-bar. Even using a vesa
driver in LinuxMint still has the right side desktop off screen.
Seems to me to be a combination of problems with the GPL drivers for ATI
and with Xorg.
Haven't found any help on the Ubuntu Community forums or by Googling.
Have had no success with attempting to install ATI's drivers ( and I'd
prefer not to use them if possible).
Advice pleas ( other than buying a couple of Nvidia cards - they'd need
to be AGP as the PCs are a couple of years old.).
Thanks
Bill
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