On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yes ... there are 2 places to set this, one is controlled by the resolution
> setting the other is controlled by the Display setting. They are at "System
> => Preferences => Screen Resolution" and "System => Administratio
Yes ... there are 2 places to set this, one is controlled by the
resolution setting the other is controlled by the Display setting. They
are at "System => Preferences => Screen Resolution" and "System =>
Administration => Display" in the Main Menu.
I had an identical problem at work yesterday
MHR wrote:
Thanks to Ritesh Khadgaray:
Is there anything I'm missing? Some other configuration file or
record somewhere I need to tweak?
with gconf-editor, check "/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution" .
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>Thanks to Ritesh Khadgaray:
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>> Is there anything I'm
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>> Also, do you have a
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>On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 a
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:37 AM, William L. Maltby
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> You had mentioned earlier that it not only changed resolution, but
> revereted to analog monitor. I don't know if this will help, but have
> you run kudzu?
Actually, I did try that, and a reboot. No help there.
T
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Do you have KDE installed too? Does it do the same under KDE? Do you
> have a Live CD for Knoppix or something, that you could boot and see
> what happens?
Don't have kde, but I do have a live cd and I got a response on
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:08 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Also, do you have a way to connect the monitor to a computer running eg
>> Windows,
>> just to see it's CentOS and Gnome that's giving you grief and not the
>> hardware?
>>
>
> I can do that, but since it works up to the login in
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Do you have some setting on your actual monitor-hardware you can tweak? You
> know
> how most lcd-monitors have auto-settings enabled. Maybe something there is
> ducking with your x-configs?
>
I tried that this morning - no
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Dunno' what to tell you more. Most of the hints I told you have worked for me,
> maybe somebody else can help you?
>
I appreciate your efforts - at least I've eliminated a lot of things
that are not the problem
mhr
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I wonder if this is related to a problem I had, 1 or 2 years ago,
> where system-config-display (?) said that it was updating xorg.conf,
> but, in fact, it did not update it. Sometimes the GUIs do not work as
> advertised
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:37 AM, William L. Maltby
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> Keep in mind that I'm ignorant.
>
We all know that, Bill - that's why I'm here, too. (No, not your
ignorance, mine! :-)
> You had mentioned earlier that it not only changed resolution, but
> revereted to analog mon
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Bart Schaefer
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> I'm not sure if this is related, but compiz won't do large
> resolutions. I had to switch to metacity to get gnome to run at >
> 1280x1024. That was on my work laptop running ubuntu, though, so take
> it with the approp
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>On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41
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>> About that generic C
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:58 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
>> possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:58 -0700, MHR wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
> > possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which
> > works for
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:58 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Something is resetting the video mode to 1280x1024 when GNOME comes up
> - is there any file other than xorg.conf that might cause this?
I'm not sure if this is related, but compiz won't do large
resolutions. I had to switch to met
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
> possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following xorg.conf file which
> works for me an autodetects any type of display I've attached to m
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and then
> possibly tweak it by hand later).
That's where I started
> Or try the following xorg.conf file which
> works for me an autodetects any type
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> About that generic CRT, have you by any chance tried generic lcd instead?
>
That's wher it's stuck - can't seem to get back to cCRT.
> Was your system fully updated? Can't recall if you mentione
On Jul 29, 2008, at 23:55, MHR wrote:
Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
be able to use it
Try letting the nvidia installer generate the xorg.conf file (and
then possibly tweak it by hand later). Or try the following
xorg.conf file which works for me
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 20:55 -0700, MHR wrote:
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> Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
> be able to use it
>
> Thanks.
>
> mhr
>
>
> What am I missing?
Not sure but here is my xorg.conf if you care to try it. Viewsonic 2200
series at 1680x1050 with nv dr
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>I used to be able to fool s
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:54 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Did you get the latest drivers for your gfx-card from Nvidia?
>>
>> FWIW, I have a same-rezed monitor as you do, and it works for me, both with
>> CentOS a
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Did you get the latest drivers for your gfx-card from Nvidia?
>
> FWIW, I have a same-rezed monitor as you do, and it works for me, both with
> CentOS and RHEL3, but I had to download and install the newest proprietary
> dr
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>[Lots removed]
>What am I missing?
Did you get the latest drive
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 9:55:50 pm MHR wrote:
> I just put a 1680x1050 LCD monitor on my home system, and I went into
> system-config-display to configure it as such, and it just won't take.
>
> Any suggestions? It's really annoying to have a wide screen and not
> be able to use it
>
What ve
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