wrong display size

[Christopher Barry]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:10:57 +0200
Sebastian Gutzwiller <sebastian.gutzwiller at gmx.net> wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I have a LCD display (115 mm x 86 mm) with VGA resolution (640 x 480) 
>connected over LVDS with an Intel Atom N450.
>
>After upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 to 14.04  I only see the upper left 
>detail of the whole screen (see attachment 'display_picture.jpg').
>
>The Xorg log (see attachment 'Xubuntu.14.04.4.LTS.Xorg.0.log')
>reported a physical screen size of 270 mm x 203 mm which is pretty
>much the size of the whole screen.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Cheers Sebastian
>
>

I like the arandr applet for setting display stuff. it will generate a
script to re-use which is handy. I use the script from lightdm, and
also in my window manager (enligtenment) to setup my three monitors
when I start up.

Give it a shot.


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Regards,
Christopher Barry