Widescreen Optimum Use

[Duncan MacGregor]

I use Mandriva, and I find that a monitor directly connected  to PS output will be sensed properly and set up
by Mandriva. I find that if I go through a KVM switch, Mandriva cannot sense the monitor  correctly, and gave  me a default screen of 1024 x 768 and a stretched picture.

It took a while to figure out that the KVM switch was doing this to me.

Duncan

On December 15, 2009 10:11:26 am you wrote:
> 
> Hi all;
> 
> I recently bought an LCD monitor for my mother-in-law. She was looking for a square monitor, but all there is nowadays is the widescreen. It's a Samsung 21.5" screen.
> 
> She is using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (I know, I should upgrade it for her one of these days). With the widescreen, the background picture gets spread out and looks very unnatural. From the settings on the monitor itself, I restricted the screen to a square size. The background looks good, but there's a lot of real estate unnecessarily lost.
> 
> What's the best way to handle a widescreen monitor? I'd be happy with having the background picture cut back to a square, but would like the icons and any open applications to use the full screen.
> 
> I've never heard anyone complain about this before, so it must be something silly I've done or overlooked. 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> John.
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