Bought one of the Hanns-G 22" widescreens a couple weeks ago. Nice price, too. :) Had the same problem; needed to add a modeline to xorg.conf. But that took care of the problem. Had some nasty-looking fonts as a result of the monitor change. They wouldn't conform to 96 x 96 dpi, even using the "force" option in KDE Control Center. Googled it, and adding these two lines to xorg.conf under the "Device" section got that straightened out: Option "UseEdidDpi" "False" Option "DPI" "96 x 96" Good to hear from you, James! :) regards, -dc On 7/7/07, James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > After my old 17" CRT finally gave up the ghost (brand new from Gateway, > May > 1997!) I picked up one of the 19" widescreen LCD's at Fred's today. > > The specs on the Hann-G and CTL monitors looked identical, so I picked up > the > CTL because the mount was lower. > > Brought it home, plugged it in, and it picked up the 1024x768 my xorg.confwas > set at. So I edited xorg.conf and put in the monitor's native 1440x900 > resolution and restarted X. > > Terrible! The result was a virtual 1440x900 screen on a 1152x864 physical > screen. Needless to say, things were a bit fuzzy as the monitor tried to > stretch pixels into 1152x864, and the top quarter of the screen was not > visible. > > Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I saw that apparently I didn't have a good > default modeline for 1440x900. X was unable to come up with something the > LCD liked, and was using the virtual screen as a workaround. > > To resolve it, add a modeline to xorg.conf like this: > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "CTL 195UW" > Option "DPMS" > HorizSync 30-80 > VertRefresh 56-75 > modeline "1440x900" 108.000 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 > +hsync > +vsync > EndSection > > (Everything after modeline is ONE LINE. The next line is the EndSection.) > > Now I have my crisp 1440x900 display, with a 61MHz refresh rate. > > So if you pick up one of the LCD's and have the same display issue try the > modeline above. It might work for the Hanns-G model also. They look to > me > like the same monitor, just different plastic parts on the outside. > > ATI Radeon Xpress 200G (RS480), onboard video using free xorg ati and/or > radeon driver. I do not see any difference between the two, and the > Xorg.0.log looks the same too. > > I guess if you used ATI's proprietary driver you might not have this > issue. I > haven't tried that solution. > > James > > ------------------------------------ > The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org > This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > the word unsubscribe in the subject header. > ------------------------------------ The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.