[cumbria_lug] Quite Incredible!

[Adam Pigg]

You probably needed to run something like krandrtray (or the gnome equivalent) 
to give a tray icon to set resolution, orientation and refresh rate.

On a side note, even my text console runs at 1440x900 now due to the magic 
that is kernel modesetting :)


On Sunday 05 April 2009 09:02:12 Roger Cope wrote:
> It was simply that CentOS couldn't reconcile my monitor pixel size and
> my display size. It knew that the monitor was widescreen (1680 x 1050)
> but wouldn't offer that as an available desktop size so I was forced to
> use a slightly larger desktop size and scroll into the corners.
>
> I didn't really put any effort into hacking about with the X settings
> because Googling about linux/centos and widescreen monitors brought up a
> 1001 different solutions. I'm sure it would have been fixable eventually
> after breaking X a few times but frankly, it should be fixable in the
> GUI or automagically.
>
> Luke Antins wrote:
> > Roger Cope wrote:
> >> Up to version 5.3 and CentOS finally supports my widescreen monitor
> >> properly.
> >
> > I'm curious, what wasn't supported correctly?
> > I would have thought setting the resolution and mayhaps playing with
> > your colour settings too, would be enough for most monitors? :-)
> >
> > Luke
>
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