Lief Hendrickson wrote: > At 02:41 PM 1/5/2009, James A. Sack 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? >> >> Regards, >> ..jim > > By "highest", do you mean the last line (which is line 28)?
heh, no in your case the highest (pixel) resolution and current (starred) resolution are the same, 1280x1024 -- that's 1280 pixels (horiz.) x 1024 pixels (vert.). > > xrandr reports: > > S2: Pixels Physical Refresh > *0 1280x1024 (340mm x 271mm) *75 > ... > 28 320x175 (342mm x 271mm) 85 > > It's kind of hard to say anything about your display strangeness without being able to poke into knoppix's settings and twiddle things. :-( ;-) Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
