I got a Samsung SyncMaster 940bw (1440x900) with the same problems and more
The resolution problem was not that big of a problem for me. I created a modeline with this command: gtf 1440 900 60 -x I looked for the correct monitor freq range with this command: sudo ddcprobe some extra command for info: sudo xresprobe via I added the required data to my xorg monitor section and got my tft working The big problems are with the fonts dpi resolution: Tho gather the info form your xsession resolution and the desktop environment resolution use these commands: xdpyinfo | grep resolution xrdb -q | grep Xft They should generate the same dpi values, if not you can have fonts problems, fussy fonts with firefox, openoffice etcetera. In edgy and dapper i solved this by adding a DisplaySize option to my monitor section but this does not work with feisty. This calculation I used for the DisplaySize (96 dpi and 25.4 stands for converting inches) 1440/96*25.4 and 900/96*25.4 = DisplaySize 381 238 1024/96*25.4 and 768/96*25.4 = DisplaySize 270.93 195.2 This was the text i added in my feisty herd5 test report but i did not received any response on this subject yet: 21: There is a font displaying resolution problem in the Ubuntu distributions. The commands: xdpyinfo | grep resolution and xrdb -q | grep Xft should give the same resolution (DPI) but they are way off, resulting in blurry fonts in some applications, like in openoffice.org. Normally I was able to solve this by calculate and adding a DisplaySize option in the xorg.conf monitor section. But that does not work with feisty! So I would like a working solution to set the xorg dpi settings sot both commands generate the same info. I also added a how-to report over the font problem that i made some time ago: ** Attachment added: "font and resoultion problem how to that used to work on dapper but not feisty" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6967497/font%20problem%20xfce%20v0.3.txt -- [Feisty] Wide screen not correctly detected (16/10) https://launchpad.net/bugs/67369 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
