2011/5/18 Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx>: > I just hooked up a Dell Zino HD via hdmi to a vizio HD TV > and no power on earth seemed to be able to get the desktop > to display at full width and height 1920x1080 resolution > with the ATI video that comes with it in Windows 7. here is the solution for your specified problem, i also came across this when friends asked for help: http://www.aoclarkejr.com/ati-catalyst-9-9-overcan-and-underscan-options.html > > Wondering if this was a vizio problem or a driver problem, it is a settings problem with the defaults settings of the driver. > I booted a linux live USB I happened to have around, and Bam! > The screen comes up perfectly in full width and height > with crisp clear edges on things and text you can read. > > So, for the first time ever in my experience, a linux video > driver works out of the box better than the Windows > drivers which seem to be the only thing the manufacturers > care about (of course this is 64 bit windows, which > the manufacturers may still not care about as much > as 32 bit). > > I'll have to add this to the plug & play working with > the HP scanner on my all-in-one device - also the first > time I ever saw that happen, and on linux, not windows. welcome to fedora/linux. kind regards, Rudolf Kastl > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
