On 25-Feb-99 Martijn van den Burg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A friend of mine installed SuSE 5.3, but he has some very strange problems
> with his display.
>
> While running any resolution higher than 640 x 480, his display stretches
> vertically, so that the lower part disappears off-screen. All characters are
> stretched vertically. In the horizontal direction everything seems to be
> fine.
>
> When moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen it does not scroll so the
> lower part can't be reached.
>
> He is using a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card, which was set-up using
> XF86setup
> as this card is, apparently, not supported by SaX (I didn't check this
> though).
> I'm sorry I can't give more specifics, I'm at work now :(
>
> Has anybody seen this behaviour, is there a solution? I am trying to convince
> this guy that Linux (and SuSE therefor) is really much better than that other
> OSthat other
> OS, but he is not convinced yet...
>
> TIA,
>
> Martijn
>
> = Martijn van den Burg
> = Tech writer, archiver, Linux user
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>
This is due to the monitor settings, unless you set the graphics card to the
exact same settings as in "that other OS" this will happen.
Either adjust the monitor to fit the picture on the screen, which can be a pain
if you are dual booting with windoze because you will have to adjust it back
then.
Or use xvidtune to adjust the settings, but be carefull too high refresh rates
can fry monitors - use at your own risk!
Regards Jo
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