Widescreen Optimum Use

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:29:17AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>    
>> Yes, my monitor can do 16:9 VGA, but I cannot set that on either of the
>> computers that pass through the KVM.  The required settings are not
>> accepted.
>>      
> The KVM should have nothing to do with it.  If the KVM lies about the
> monitor DDC then the KVM is shit and should be replaced with one that
> passes through the real DDC data.  Nothing else will ever work right.
>
> Check what the X log files say the DDC info was.
>
> Also many computer screens are 16:10 not 16:9.
>
>    
As I mentioned, a wide screen setting is simply not accepted in SAX2, 
the configuration utility in OpenSUSE.  I'll have to check the log files 
later.  One computer is an old IBM Netfinity server and the other is an 
old Compaq that originally came with Windows ME.  I don't have much hope 
for that one.  I also have an 8 year old ThinkPad, which I haven't tried 
yet, but I suspect won't be able to do it either.

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