On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:41 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <jgs...@san.rr.com> wrote:
> Lief Hendrickson wrote:
>> When I boot to Knoppix 5.1.1, I get a horizontal offset of the screen
>> image of about 3.5 inches on the left side. i.e. there is a 3.5'" wide
>> blank section on the left. The screen image goes past the right margin.
>> This is after adjusting the max using the monitor's horizontal
>> adjustment. The monitor is a 17" Viewsonic VA702b. The monitor works
>> fine displaying text while Knoppix is booting. Any ideas of how to get
>> the image centered? Thanks.
>>
>
> Looks like that mon. is standard 4x3 format, and is supposed to do
> 1280x1024 resolution.
>
> What does
> xrandr
> report for the highest and current (starred) resolutions?
>
Well, Knoppix managed to hide the pertinent control program pretty
well. It took me several minutes to find it, and I knew what I was
looking for. Frequently the automated display setup chooses something
weird that does not fit your monitor.
Circle K -> Control Center -> Peripherals -> Display -> Size & Orientation
will tell you what it thinks you have and should let you make changes.
Probably you can change Screen Size and Refresh rate to suit your
monitor better.
Try 1280x1024 and 60 Hz for starters.
Also see if your monitor has a setup button that will align it to the
input signal.
carl
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