Correcting a screen offset in X

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 09 May 2006 18:23, paul marwick wrote:
> In article <200605090356.54719.alan at linuxholdings.co.za>,
>
> Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> > Cool. What resolution and monitor are you using? I'm seeing this
> > problem a lot lately and it's happening on unlikely combinations.
> > For example, on my setup letting xorg do it's own thing I get
> > something similar at 1600x1200, whereas 1792x1344 is perfect. If
> > anything I would think it would be the other way round.
>
> I'm only using 1024x768 (15" TFT monitor). The odd thing is that
> the problem didn't show up at all while I was using the Matrox
> card. However, it shows up with the Radeon 7500 in this machine and
> the Elsa Synergy II in the machine which currently has Hoary
> installed. Don't know why that should make a difference. Especially
> since it only shows up in Linux - all three machines are fine
> running under OS/2.

Very weird, the only thing more standard than 1024 x 768 is 800 x 600. 
I'd be interested to know what causes this (monitors are a pet 
subject of mine). Which driver are you using, and does it make a 
difference if you use the ati proprietary driver?

Any chance you could send me your /var/log/Xorg.0.log when started at 
that resolution? - send it off list, at 50k it might upset folks on 
the list

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Alan McKinnon
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