-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bill, I had heaps of problems with ATI cards using the open source drivers and could never get the proprietary ones installed so I ended up buying an nVidia card (agp card). I hope you have better luck. Heracles
bill wrote: > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGwWydybPcBAs9CE8RArCSAJ4rteYrcNt9Tcu+VhLVnk33+p3daQCgoyos QP2CVUS643FWOsQUzoPl3z8= =ReuM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
