Desktop Window Splits with an LCD Monitor

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> 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.

I agree.  I have worked with various LCD displays and projectors, and the 
one common element they all have, to work at most whatever resolution you 
want, is to set the refresh rate to 60 Hz and they're happy.

Scott

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