[Novalug] Great time

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

I have an acer X221W 22" widescreen 1680x1050 monitor. when i run centos 
5.3, i get only about 90% of the width covered with the blue login 
background of gdm, unless i hit CTRL-ALT-+, which gives me the whole 
screen. unfortunately, using system-config-display doesn't really help 
either, giving me progressively weirder effects, making me wish i had 
squirreled away the original xorg.conf.

and fedora and/or ubuntu don't even seem to have an xorg.conf. i'd like 
to see an option to disable the stupid mouse area on a laptop when you 
have a real mouse connected. I always bounce my thumbs on those.

jim

John Franklin wrote:
> 
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Barnett Hsu wrote:
>>
>> The hardest part was getting the video to be set at a higher
>> resolution than 800x600.  Kudos to Mr. Franklin for determining
>> that adding the horizontal sync and vertical refresh lines
>> into the xorg.conf was what was necessary to get the display
>> at 1280x1024.
> 
> 
> My pleasure.  xorg.conf and his father, XFree86Config, are old 
> adversaries of mine.  I hate to see others suffer low screen resolution  
> by them. :)
> 
> jf
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