Please help with Xorg

[Roland Scheidegger]

On 16.03.2010 02:50, John Tapsell wrote:
> On 15 March 2010 20:03, Simone Azzalin <azzalin.simone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    >Just to eliminate the stupid questions first..
>>>> Is your screen TFT, and if so, what is its native resolution? :)
>>  Resolutions always worked fine with many distros, but in the last times it
>> happens with   recents distros for example..
>> The first resolution proposed is 1200 x 920 (if I remember well because I'm
>> on another pc right now )
> 
> Okay so that's a ratio of 1200/920 = 5/4 = 1.25
> But you're trying to use a resolution of 1024/768 = 4/3 = 1.33
> 
> So it's no wonder you're getting black bars.  The picture just doesn't
> fit on the screen.
> 
> If it used to 'work', probably you just set some setting on the
> monitor to stretch the screen to fit, instead of adding black bars.
> 
> So, either run in 1200/920 or play about with the monitor settings to
> find a way to make it stretch instead of adding black bars.
> 
> I think this has nothing to do with linux or xorg.

Well if that's a notebook lvds panel, those don't come with scalers,
hence the graphic chip does this. It may be adjustable with something
like xrandr --output LVDS --set scale full or something like that. I
agree though it's better to use native resolution (or one which at least
has the same aspect ratio) if you don't want black bars.

Roland