I just bought a new Acer AL22223W 22" monitor. Nice monitor indeed. I have an Intel 915G video chipset in this machine. After much head scratching I determined that I need to run 915resolution to patch the bios so it will support 1680x1050 resolution. Without it I couldn't get anything more than 1280x1024. Therefore, I installed 915resolution and put this line into /etc/sysconfig/915resolution: # Mode to overwrite RESOLUTION="58 1680 1050" Now I have 1680x1050 running but the picture is about 1/8" too short for the monitor and about 1/2" too wide on both sides. I have a 1/8" black strip at the top and I'm missing about 1/2" of my desktop on both of the sides. There doesn't appear to be a way to set the screensize directly on the monitor. I know that some old CRT's used to have a "zoom" to make the screen fit, but maybe LCD's don't work that way. The on-screen menu tells me that the monitor is running at 1680x1050, H70, V64, Analog input. So I guess I have the right resolution on the screen; the desktop is just the wrong size. I generated a modeline this way: gtf 1680 1050 60 and I got this: # 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync However, when I put that in as the last line in the "Monitor" section of my xorg.conf, the login screen comes up huge and only partly there, and when I log in all I get is an error telling me that Nautilus can't start. If I remove that line then everything works and I can log in at 1680x1050. So I'm almost there. The resolution seems to be what it's supposed to be. How can I tell it to make my desktop taller and narrower so it will fit on the screen? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
