Widescreen Optimum Use

[James Knott]

Salman Ahmed wrote:
> Does using the VGA connection/input on a widescreen LCD cause the display to be stretched or scaled? Or is it possibly due to a limitation in the video card not being able to support the widescreen display resolutions?
>
>    
I could not configure either of the VGA computers I tried to use a wide 
screen.  The settings weren't accepted.  The monitor can be configured 
to display in either 16:9 or 4:3 modes.  Of course 4:3 results in black 
bars at the sides.  With my main computer, which has a DVI output and 
does not pass through the KVM, I simply used the NVidea configuration 
utility to enable the new monitor and didn't have to set anything else.  
It just worked.  I'm running OpenSUSE 11.0


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