intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

[Thomas Lübking]

On Samstag, 18. Juli 2015 07:51:41 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote:

> The default seems to be 1280x768.  There is a 13nnx800 mode but the 
> images are bigger than the screen and circles are still smunched 
> vertically. 17" AOC monitor on the machine doing the squashing.

What are complete output of "xrandr -q", contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the exact monitor model?

Usually the system asks monitor and IGP for supported modes and presents you the intersection - 1280x768 is 16:9.6, but if the monitors physical pixels aren't square, this can end up as 16:9

Cheers,
Thomas