Too wide of a screen

[Ray Parrish]

On 01/17/2011 01:21 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 07:57 -0800, Ray Parrish wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have just completed upgrading from 8.04 to 10.04
>> and now I have a few problems.
>>
>> This first problem is that with my resolution set
>> to 1024x768 as I normally have it, the screen is
>> too wide and runs off the left side. My
>> applications menu on the top tool bar is almost
>> completely out of sight as it runs off the screen
>> on the left side.
>>
>> For some mad reason as well, the tool bar on the
>> right side of my screen will not pop out when I
>> move my mouse to it. I can see it's edge sticking
>> out there, but it refuses to pop out when I move
>> the mouse pointer to it.
>>
>> I have an Nvidia video card, and did note that
>> during the upgrade I was informed that
>> nvidia-glx-new could not be installed. Since
>> booting up I have gone to hardware drivers, and
>> enabled the recommended version of nvidia driver.
>>
>> I have also gone into appearance, and enabled
>> hardware acceleration as well.
>>
> Fire up the nVidia X-server setup thingie, go through the hoops and
> allow it to save a new /etc/xorg.conf file. That's on the second tab.
> Back up the old one first though. That should auto-configure your video
> setup for you. Rick
OK, I tried that, and there was no change. I'm 
wondering if nvidia's driver thinks that I am 
running a different sized monitor than the 15 inch 
TFT LCD Jetway I have?

The nvidia settings dialog reports my screen size 
as being 313 x 232 millimeters, which I have no 
way of measuring to verify as I have no metric 
rules to use.

It also reports a resolution of 83 x 84 dots per 
inch, which I am not sure of either.

Is there any way to change the size reported above 
to see if the screen shrinks down to the correct size?

I know from previous experience that this monitor 
does not correctly report it's data. I used some 
of the tools I found in Ubuntu to query the 
monitor's information, and it always told me that 
the monitor was not returning the information.

Later, Ray Parrish

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