Re: Desktop Window Splits with an LCD Monitor

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, 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.