Re: Desktop Window Splits with an LCD Monitor

["Casey Callendrello" <user=1546@nabble.blu.org>]

 Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> Paul W Jameson 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. 
>> 
>> But the display works OK with an old CRT monitor. But I'd prefer to use 
>> the larger LCD monitor. I've had this LCD problem with the window 
>> separating into two parts with various distributions. 
>>     
> 
> I've had that issue with LCDs that don't auto-adjust for the input.  Bring 
> up the monitor's OSD menu, and tinker with the settings (on my Planar LCDs, 
> the sub-menu is called 'LCD Adjust->Fine Tune' 
> not 
> HTH, 
> Matt 
> 
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