Widescreen monitor (Acer AL1702W) is not using proper resolution
Bug #161816 reported by
Chandru
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I run Kubuntu 7.10, using the live install CD, my monitor model (Acer AL1702W) and its max resolution (1440x900) are detected correctly. However only three-fourth of the screen was used and the display was badly skewed. I'm using an nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000.
When I checked the System Settings, I found that while the resolution is detected properly, the "Image Format" for the monitor was set to "Standard 4:3". When I changed it to "Widescreen 16:9" and restarted X, everything was fine.
This can affect the user experience of new users trying Kubuntu for the first time on a widescreen monitor.
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Congratulation for your fixing the problem in Ubuntu, I ran into same trouble in Gentoo.
please tell where is you find the "Image format" of system, because I can't found this option on Ubuntu 7.10 Install CD.
Please post you /etc/X11/xorg.conf here or mail me as attachment "<email address hidden>", let me search useful info for my distro.