<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks for your reply, Jim.<br><br>How do I make the suggested changes. In Ubuntu there's a Screen Resolution programme, but this does not allow changing the pitch and entering of the actual screen size.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Ron<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 8/8/09, Jim Moore <i><jmthelostpacket@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket@googlemail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] New Monitor<br>To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group" <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Saturday, 8 August, 2009, 7:48 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">At a glance, your monitor native frequency is 1366x768 (which isn't<br>bad considering it's an uberbudget monitor but still seems a little<br>low for the screen size - I have a 17" standard ratio
which is native<br>at 1600x1200 and that's a 5 year old HP), so with a bit of number<br>fiddling, you need to set up your monitor geometry manually (as is<br>usually the case on widescreens) with the following:<br><br>pitch: 0.300mm<br>measure horizontal and vertical panel dimensions with a tape, you'll<br>need these numbers for setup as well, because the pixel dimensions<br>suggest rectangular pixels rather than square - again unusual for a<br>compiter monitor and bound to make life interesting - what you<br>actually have there is a HDTV panel with a VGA connector.<br><br>HTH<br><br>TLP<br><br>On 8/8/09, Ron Wilton <<a ymailto="mailto:ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk">ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello All<br>><br>> My 4 x 3 monitor went on me earlier this week.<br>><br>> I've just bought a widescreen monitor hoping that it would be alright. It<br>> works okay, except that the picture
quality is not very good. Any ideas on<br>> what I can do? I've got an acer X193HQ and an using Ubuntu.<br>><br>> Thanks for any help<br>><br>> Ron<br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nottingham mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>