Re: [PLUG] Monitor Viewing Size

["Steven M. Castellotti" <cycon@rosemont-sch.org>]

> I have a 17" monitor.  Normally I use the controls on the front to
> adjust the Vert and Horiz size in order to maximize the viewing area.
> However, I have the H. size adjusted to 100% according to the monitor,
> but still have room left.  Is there a way to adjust this independent of
> the monitor controls?  Vert is fine.

	There should be two ways, AFAIK.

	First of all, I know that my MAG Innovision monitor - about 4
years old now - has problems with certain refresh rates, in which I can
get the correct resolution, but just like you, I can't expand the image to
meet the edge of the plastic case around the CRT. Usually changing the
refresh rate fixes the problem.

	Secondly, I'm not certain how to go about doing it, but there
should be a setting in X to stretch the video wider on the CRT. SuSE's
YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) will let you do this during the last step of
X-Windows configuration. I've never bothered to check the X documentation
to see if there's a way to simply edit the file to do this, or whether is
was something specific to YaST (which is not Open Source, btw). I ended up
moving back to Debian after a few months of using SuSE, so I can't check
right now to see if an XF86Config file generated by YaST has a few
different lines in it.

	Hope this helps.

-Steve Castellotti
 SteveC@innocent.com
 http://cogengine.linuxave.net



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