On 16 March 2010 13:48, Roland Scheidegger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16.03.2010 02:50, John Tapsell wrote: >> On 15 March 2010 20:03, Simone Azzalin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >Just to eliminate the stupid questions first.. >>>>> Is your screen TFT, and if so, what is its native resolution? :) >>> Resolutions always worked fine with many distros, but in the last times it >>> happens with recents distros for example.. >>> The first resolution proposed is 1200 x 920 (if I remember well because I'm >>> on another pc right now ) >> >> Okay so that's a ratio of 1200/920 = 5/4 = 1.25 >> But you're trying to use a resolution of 1024/768 = 4/3 = 1.33 >> >> So it's no wonder you're getting black bars. The picture just doesn't >> fit on the screen. >> >> If it used to 'work', probably you just set some setting on the >> monitor to stretch the screen to fit, instead of adding black bars. >> >> So, either run in 1200/920 or play about with the monitor settings to >> find a way to make it stretch instead of adding black bars. >> >> I think this has nothing to do with linux or xorg. > > Well if that's a notebook lvds panel, those don't come with scalers,
Ah good point - reviewing the first email, he does indeed say that this is a laptop. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
