Relative Newbie With Display Problem (Problem 1).

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On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 13:10 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:

Hi Brian,
can you adjust your monitor physically?
I found that windows, knoppix all either never filled the screen, or
over filled it, needed monitor adjusted.
take care
Winton



> Hi,
> 
> I am new to Ubuntu, to this list and a relatively new
> Linux user as well. I have played around with Fedora
> Core 3, Libranet, Knoppix, Suse, etc, but I am now
> working without a safety net as I have erased my
> Windows partition (doh) and am trying to go cold
> turkey. Firstly, I would like to say CUDOs to the
> Ubuntu team on a great initiative. That said, here is
> my first problem: The display does not seem to be
> working properly. the right hand side of the desktop
> and all windows is cut off. I can barely see the
> trashcan icon in either 800 x 600 resolution or 1024 x
> 768. Refresh rates are limited 60 Hz in 1024 x 768 and
> to 72 Hz, 60 Hz and 56 Hz in 800 x 600. I don't think
> my display/monitor and graphics card were detected
> properly. Here are the specs: ASUS V8200 series card
> that should register as a GeForce 3 and a ViewSonic
> E70 monitor, with Ubuntu 4.10. It would be nice to see
> a display config tool that would allow you to change
> monitor (like the CUPS printer driver scheme) rather
> than just resolution. This seems to be one of the
> weakest links in the configuration process for newbies
> in Linux and no distro that I have seen seems to do a
> very good job of detecting the display hardware. Even
> Knoppix gets my monitor wrong and it isn't an uncommon
> display and Knoppix is known for its great hardware
> detection. Any advise or comments would be much
> appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
>