[Openchrome-users] Widescreen display cropped

[Heike C. Zimmerer]

"jeffsim" <userforum at openchrome.org> writes:

>> I've got a ViewSonic VA1930WM 19" widescreen and I'm trying to get
>> it to work with my UniChrome card. Right now Ubuntu boots into
>> Gnome fine, the display resolution says 1440x900 but there's a wide
>> black gap on the left of my screen which looks like it's been
>> cropped or something.

It is not that unusual that your graphics timing doesn't fit the one
your monitor expects (and I wouldn't see that as a driver related
problem).

There should be a lot of information on the net about fiddling around
with X parameters, and probably some in your /usr/share/doc/HOWTO
directory too.

I'd start with your monitor's built-in setup menu.  If that doesn't
help (I assume you tried and it didn't), running xvidtune would be my
next candidate.  It looks like you're not far away from some usable
configuration.  In such cases, you should be able to find a timing
where both devices can agree upon (if there is one) using xvidtune.