Subject: Re: Resolution and Screen Placement Issues...
From: Andy Green (agreen1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 13:45:56 MDT
Thanks for the reply.
The xvidtune is a strange applicaiton but I think I can fix issue 1 with that.
For some reason, 1600x1200 is the only resolution that works. I have tried
chaning resolutions using the Ctrl + Alt + Keypad + sign but the only one
that is useable is 16x12.
Thanks again.
Andy
On Friday 07 September 2001 02:18, you wrote:
> > First let me say what a great job the YDL team has done putting together
> > a version of Linux for the PPC. It's very impressive and I am very
> > grateful to have the ability to use this great tool on my G4. I just got
> > YDL 2.0 in the mail yesterday and stayed up until about 3am trying to get
> > everything up and running. I bought an extra 30GB hard drive for YDL and
> > that's where I have it installed exactly to spec.
>
> Thank you. Comments like this keep us going.
>
> > 1. There is a 1/4" black border around my desktop screen and I have not
> > found any documentation or applications that explain how to expand my
> > screen so that it consumes the entire monitor space. In the Mac OS, this
> > is typically done on the software side since the Apple Studio Display
> > doesn't have any controls built into the monitor. How do I expand my
> > desktop screen?
>
> There is a program called "xvidtune" that should let you do this.
>
> > 2. I have managed to change the resolution to 1600x1200. This seems to be
> > the only resolution that the monitor can handle in 24 bit color. My
> > monitor and video card are capable of 32 bit color at 16x12 but when I
> > tried to use that setting using Xconfigurator, I get an error that says
> > 32 bit color not supported. In the current resolution, 1600x1200, there
> > seems to be an odd bright line on the right hand side of the screen. It
> > is clearly not supposed to be there and it makes me nervous. How do I get
> > my setting to accept the 32 bit color in 1600x1200 resolution? and How do
> > I get rid of the bright white lines on the right of the screen?
>
> 1600x1200 seems a little high for that monitor, have you tried going down
> to like 1280x1024?
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