Re: Desktop Window Splits with an LCD Monitor

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:35:48 -0500 
Paul W Jameson <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 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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> Jerry, Matt, Scott, Casey, Bill et al, 
> 
> Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. We found that pushing the 
> number 2 button activated the auto-tuning function which automatically 
> repaired the split in the screen. Without your encouragement I wouldn't 
> have thought to try those buttons and would have gone back to a old CRT 
> with a small fuzzy viewing screen.