On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:03:56 -0500 Mike Bailey <mi...@0day4hax.com> wrote:
> Hello all, > Last week I bought myself a new monitor to replace my old 24" > monitor. The new monitor is a Samsung S27C500, which is connected via > hdmi. The monitor has two inputs: one hdmi, and one vga. [clip] > I am stuck with a problem where the screen size > is limited to about the size of my old 24" monitor, with black space > surrounding the entire usable screen. > > If I send an ctrl+alt+f2 to switch to tty2, I am able to use the > entirety of the monitor, which tells me that this is an issue > somewhere in X. I dug into [clip] > I appreciate any help any of you are able to toss my way. I'd handle this as a process. Burn a Ubuntu live DVD, a System Rescue CD CD, and maybe another live distro or two. Boot into each, and see whether the symptom does not appear on one of them. One of the oldest troubleshooting tactics is to find one situation where the symptom appears, another where it doesn't, and exploit the differences. What's different about the configs of each? What happens if you swap out the X config file (whatever it's called these days) of the one that works over the one that didn't (after backing up the one that didn't, of course). You can keep changing things til you find that one factor that causes the symptom. Somebody recommended switching to VESA as a diagnostic test. That's certainly a quick test that I'd do early. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140616111734.10530ee0@mydesk
