[Nottingham] New Monitor

[Matthew Tompsett]

What kind of video card do you have? If it's an nvidia then you can use the
nvidia xconfig utility to change the resolution and refresh rates, if not
then you may have to use the xrandr command line program, google it I can't
quite remember how to use it but there are guides you can follow,

Matt

2009/8/9 Ron Wilton <ron_w_add at yahoo.co.uk>

> Thanks for your reply, Jim.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron
>
> --- On *Sat, 8/8/09, Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] New Monitor
> To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group" <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Saturday, 8 August, 2009, 7:48 PM
>
>
> At a glance, your monitor native frequency is 1366x768 (which isn't
> bad considering it's an uberbudget monitor but still seems a little
> low for the screen size - I have a 17" standard ratio which is native
> at 1600x1200 and that's a 5 year old HP), so with a bit of number
> fiddling, you need to set up your monitor geometry manually (as is
> usually the case on widescreens) with the following:
>
> pitch: 0.300mm
> measure horizontal and vertical panel dimensions with a tape, you'll
> need these numbers for setup as well, because the pixel dimensions
> suggest rectangular pixels rather than square - again unusual for a
> compiter monitor and bound to make life interesting - what you
> actually have there is a HDTV panel with a VGA connector.
>
> HTH
>
> TLP
>
> On 8/8/09, Ron Wilton <ron_w_add at yahoo.co.uk<http://mc/compose?to=ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk>>
> wrote:
> > Hello All
> >
> > My 4 x 3 monitor went on me earlier this week.
> >
> > I've just bought a widescreen monitor hoping that it would be alright. It
> > works okay, except that the picture quality is not very good. Any ideas
> on
> > what I can do? I've got an acer X193HQ and an using Ubuntu.
> >
> > Thanks for any help
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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