[kwlug disc.] Flatpanels, the new tie

[Chris Irwin]

Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
> So I got a 22" wide LCD panel for Father's day.  Plugged 'er in and 
> changed my settings, but I'm getting a couple odd problems.
> 
> I'm running mandriva and have both my screen resolution and the monitor 
> resolution set to 1600X1050.  The graphics card shown is the correct one.
> 
> Here's what's happening.  The moniter seems smaller than the desktop.  
> By this I mean that when I move my mouse to the right, the entire 
> desktop shifts left.  Same goes for top and bottom.  I can shift my view 
> like a magnifying glass over top of a larger desktop.  It's a bit 
> disconcerting though it's clearly supposed to work that way based on my 
> settings. How do I set this up so that both my monitor and desktop are 
> the same size?
> 
> Second problem (maybe resolved by the first one?) is that if I move the 
> mouse off the desktop on the right too fast, I get a blank blue screen.  
> If I move the mouse to the left again, my desktop is restored.  Moving 
> the mouse slow doesn't create this behavior.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Can you post your xorg.conf file? I'm just curious what is set in there 
to give you a screen size larger than the display size.

With both nvidia (using proprietary driver) and intel (using intel 
mode-setting driver) graphics cards (desktop & laptop, respectively), I 
do not fill out any resolution or size information in the xorg.conf 
file, opting instead to have xorg probe for the proper settings. When I 
got my flat panel, I plugged it in and got native resolution straight away.

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Chris I