1280 X 728 update

[NoOp]

On 05/29/2009 06:57 PM, Dennis wrote:
> NoOP:  It does well on my external monitor.  (17" wide screen), but on
> my laptop (also wide screen-default 1280X768) I lose the bottom menu
> bar. -so I just close the cover on the laptop.  I'm happy.

My guess would be that the refresh rate may be causing the problem. For
example if I select a size the works for my 17" MegaImage (1024 x 768)
but change the refresh rate, I can easily see the difference in the
displayed image.  At 70hz it fills the screen nicely, at 85hz it leaves
black margins of about 1/2 all around. So you might see if changing the
refresh rate provides what you want on the laptop. Note: most laptop
lcd's only seem to work well at 60hz (at least on my old clunkers). You
may have tried this already, I lost track in the other thread, but from
a terminal try:

$ xrandr

and see what the output is.

> 
> by the way, thanks for your dedication over the years.  I'm non geek and
> post when I want to know something.  I'm glad I have a been familiar
> with this users group over the years so that I can turn my head at some
> of the BS postings that has been going on lately.  

Thanks for that.

> 
> for the new Ubuntu users that have join recently, you will pick up on
> who is creditable and who is on some sore of a BS ego.

I hope that you weren't referring to Derek... he's usually pretty spot
on on most issues (OK I'll forgive that fact that he's a KDE guy) and I
very much appreciate his assistance. :-)

> 
> nongeek Dennis

All the best & have a great 1280 x 768 weekend :-)

Gary

> 
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 18:28 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 05/26/2009 06:20 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > Dennis wrote:
>> > 
>> >> thank for the help so far, I just can't seem to solve 1280 x 768 which
>> >> is max on my laptop Radeon 600.
>> > 
>> > Are you _really_ sure you want 1280x768?  It's an odd size (and the fact 
>> > that the subject says 728 doesn't help...).
>> > 
>> > 16:10 is 1280x800
>> > 1280x768 is only 5:3 - not a normal ratio.
>> 
>> Hmmm.... I just backed a test system down to hardy (from jaunty to
>> intrepid to hardy) for testing purposes. The first thing that I always
>> need to do is set the screen resolution; what do you know, I show:
>> 
>> 1280 x 960
>> 1280 x 800
>> 1280 x 768
>> ^^^^^^^^^^
>> So I set it for 1280 x 768 & it worked just fine. Granted, it's not the
>> right resolution for my screen, but the point is that the option is
>> available in hardy (I'll test in jaunty on the same machine later).
>> 
>> Current video card on that machine is an old ATI:
>> *-display UNCLAIMED
>>                 description: VGA compatible controller
>>                 product: Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
>>                 vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
>> 
>> 
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