Re: Wide Screen not supported? Gnome looks bad, is unusable.

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tomhorsley@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Can anyone point me to how to correct this, or am I stuck using Kde or
>> just sshing in from my mac to use this new box? :(
> 
> Well, I just got my new Westinghouse 1920x1080 display working this
> weekend, and had to generate a new ModeLine entry for my xorg.conf
> file to describe the 1920x1080 mode before gnome would offer it to
> me as a possible resolution.
> 
> On the x.org web site, you can goto the wiki and search for ModeLine
> to find an article about how to use information from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> file to generate the proper ModeLine.

gtf 1920 1080 60

will do this for you.

regards

Stuart

> My contempt for the mental processes of the X designers rose to new
> levels when I discovered that all you have to do is cut & paste numbers
> it already knows and prints in the log into the right columns in a ModeLine
> directive. Why X can't do this automatically is beyond my comprehension :-).



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