Desktop Window Splits with an LCD Monitor

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:00:28 -0500
Paul W Jameson <paul_jameson at comcast.net> wrote:

> Jerry and group,
> 
> I'm soliciting advice for setting up the horizontal synch with an LCD
> monitor and an older Dell PC with integrated graphics(I think). 
> 
> While installing UBUNTU, text information displays reasonably. The
> desktop display sets itself to 1600x1200, which is more than the X2Gen
> LCD monitor is rated for. When I change the resolution to the rated
> 1280x1024, the desktop window splits into two parts, with a dark
> vertical stripe near the middle of the viewing area. The left part of
> the window appears on the right and the right part of the window appears
> on the left. 

In addition to what Matt mentions, in the Ubuntu menu,
System/Administration/Screens and Graphics, check the video driver you
are using. Also your sync rate is probably 60Hz. Try some different
resolutions and test. LCD monitors are much less sensitive to settings
than are CRTs. You can ruin a CRT if you have the sync rates wrong, but
the LCDs are much different. Just experiment to see what looks good. 

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