Re: Desktop Window Splits with an LCD Monitor

["Paul Jameson" <user=1289@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 15:59 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:00:28 -0500 
> Paul W Jameson <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > Jerry and group, 
> > 
> > I'm soliciting advice for setting up the horizontal synch with an LCD 
> > monitor and an older Dell PC with integrated graphics(I think). 
> > 
> > While installing UBUNTU, text information displays reasonably. The 
> > desktop display sets itself to 1600x1200, which is more than the X2Gen 
> > LCD monitor is rated for. When I change the resolution to the rated 
> > 1280x1024, the desktop window splits into two parts, with a dark 
> > vertical stripe near the middle of the viewing area. The left part of 
> > the window appears on the right and the right part of the window appears 
> > on the left. 
> 
> In addition to what Matt mentions, in the Ubuntu menu, 
> System/Administration/Screens and Graphics, check the video driver you 
> are using. Also your sync rate is probably 60Hz. Try some different 
> resolutions and test. LCD monitors are much less sensitive to settings 
> than are CRTs. You can ruin a CRT if you have the sync rates wrong, but 
> the LCDs are much different. Just experiment to see what looks good. 
> 
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