Limited Screen Resolution Choices

[Jeremiah Foster]

I had this problem as well. Make sure your monitor supports the
resolution you are looking for, many new monitors do not.

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 11:14 +0100, paran0rmal wrote:
> Firstly thanks for your reply. I got the deb file, went through the
> steps and now have 1152x864 @ 75Hz available. However when I choose it
> the monitor displays it so small that I can't actually stretch it
> anywhere near wide enough to fit the screen. 
> 
> The monitor displays the following information on the resolution: 
> H: 58.6   V: 63
> 
> I've tried setting my Horizontal (30-70) and Vertical (50-160) manually
> in the xorg.conf:
> HorizSync  30-70
> VertRefresh  50-160
> 
> And also tried a generated modeline:
> Modeline "1152x864" 107.48  1152 1208 1336 1584   864  864  867  904)
> 
> None of this makes any difference, and according to the modeline
> generator the horizontal should be 68, not 58.6 as displayed by the
> monitor.
> 
> Is there anything else I can try? I've looked around a lot and found no
> other suggestions. 
> 
> Thanks
> Andre
> 
> 
> -- 
> paran0rmal
>