Re: Desktop Window Splits with an LCD Monitor

["Bill Horne-9" <user=27@nabble.blu.org>]

 Casey Callendrello wrote: 
> 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 
>> 
>>   
>>     
> One tip that has seriously improved my LCD using experience is to 
> display the SMPTE test pattern as I auto-adjust my monitor if it's using 
> an analog connection: 
> http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/research/topics/vispercep/tutorial.html
> and http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/research/topics/vispercep/smpte/smpte.gif
> 
> I've only tried this on Dell LCDs, but, at least in my experience, the 
> results of the auto-adjust function are highly dependent on the signal 
> being given to the monitor.  Displaying images with a wide range of 
> greyscale values and one-pixel lines causes the auto-adjust feature to 
> be much more accurate. 
> 
> --Casey