got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

[Jonathan Horne]

On Monday 28 August 2006 10:05, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 08:40, newsmaster wrote:
> > Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid:
> > <200608280828.50885.freebsd at dfwlp.com>
> >
> > > On Monday 28 August 2006 07:44, newsmaster wrote:
> > >> Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid:
> > >> <200608280705.21475.freebsd at dfwlp.com>
> > >>
> > >> > well, i finally got it to render at 1680x1050, but the size of my
> > >> > desktop is fixed at about 1.5" outside the physical size of the lcd
> > >> > (and about 3/8" top
> > >> > and bottom).  ive dont quite a bit of googling, and i am now trying
> > >> > to figure out if there is a way to constain or shrink the desktop
> > >> > down, so that i will be at the edges of my screen?
> > >>
> > >> Did you try "xvidtune" ? It is disigned for that purpose.
> > >
> > > i did, but i couldnt outwardly figure out what i was looking at.  when
> > > i go tot he xvidtune page tho, it says its for XFree86... will it till
> > > work properly for xorg?
> >
> > Yes, for me its works very well with Xorg.
> > I bought me a new IIyama lcd screen and I had to add manually
> > some new mode-lines. You can extrapolate from the existing ones.
> > Then xvidtune makes the finishing touch. Press on "show" and replace
> > the mode-line with the output of xvidtune.
>
> when you click the narrower and shorters (etc) buttons, shouldnt the
> display be obeying these buttons?  if so, im at a loss, as when i click
> them back and forth, nothing happens.
>
> ill try again,
>

problem solved.  got an nvidia 7300GS.  as little changing the driver and 
vendor name, and the next startx i was at the proper resolution and refresh 
rate.

sorry intel!

cheers,
jonathan