> I think you've been spoiled. I have a Matrox Millenium card, pretty > common. Never have black bars under windows, nor matter which settings I > use. Always have them under Linux. Pushed the equations as far as they'd > go using the raw numbers from the manuals, and could not remove them. >
I have a Matrox Millenium G200 and have never seen the black bars, never seen them with any other video card under Linux either. I have gone through several monitor and card combinations and have never come accross it, and never heard of the "problem" before this thread.