[Openchrome-users] Widescreen display cropped

[jeffsim]

Re: Widescreen display cropped
The best that xvidtune could come up with was to shift my screen left so it's centered. Trying to widen it beyond a certain point causes the screen to dim and vertical gray lines to start showing...

Any more suggestions? I'd really love to get this awesome monitor to work well.

> "jeffsim"  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.
> 
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