On 3/12/2010 10:22 AM, John W Foster wrote:
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From: Paul E Condon<pecon...@mesanetworks.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: need help with xorg.conf
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:16 -0700
I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works
nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when
I switch to Squeeze.
In particular:
The screen is 1366x768 according to the user manual that came with it.
Under Lenny, X chooses to run it at 1280x768 which is OK, but
Under Squeeze, X chooses 1024x768 which makes things that should be
circle into broad elipses. And wastes a lot of the resolution on
over-size characters.
I would like to try composing some configuration lines and inserting
them in a conf file, xorg.conf, I think, but I'm not sure.
Some quidance would be greatly appreciated.
I never heard of 1366x768, this seems non-standard to me. A wide screen
monitor might be 1440x900. What is the diagonal measurement in inches
or centimeters? What is the aspect ratio? 4:3, 3:2, 16:10, 16:9?
(1366x768 is physically 16:9 assuming square pixels)
I am asking such silly-seeming questions because xorg.conf these days
tends to be ignored by the Xservers if it seems inconvenient to the
driver+server. That is, in my experience, if the monitor is
plug-and-play, then X goes by whatever the monitor hardware reports, and
xorg.conf might as well not exist.
For the record, my experiences have been with early Squeeze and Sid.
Mark Allums
(Also, Virtualbox, but my difficulties with X under vbox, I attributed
to vbox, since the vbox X driver needs help knowing what the size of the
view is---and why it's important to install the "additions" helper.)
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