question about my new Dell 3010

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:05:50AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/12/2012 00:31, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:38:06AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >> > On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >>> > > 	one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my 
> >>> > > 	Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4.  it's
> >>> > > 	something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs
> >>> > > 	1920x1280 or close to that.  do I need to go out and find a
> >>> > > 	videocard?  or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving 
> >>> > > 	it to the video?
> 
> >> > Do you have a DVI connector on your current graphics card, or just the
> >> > old style VGA connector?  Pretty much all modern widescreen monitors
> >> > will have a DVI connector as well as the legacy VGA.
> 
> > 	actually, I have both.  the KVM dates from 2010 and came with
> > 	four cables and eight plugs.  
> 
> Ahah!  You're using a KVM switch.  That can block the monitor from
> sending its configuration information to the X server.  It's easy to
> tell: just try connecting directly to the monitor temporarily.
> 
> If that works, you can use xrandr to extract the monitor details, write
> a mode line for your xorg.conf and put the KVM back in the loop, while
> keeping the optimum configuration.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew


	the thing is that I had this working before--twice--one running
	Gnnome, once KDE and both thru theKVM switch.  the last time I
	re-reinstalled from a DVD [gnome], the kde from a CD: nojoy.

	gary
	 
	 PS I managed to get both ssh's [bi-directionally] within a few
	 hours.  ive run every diagnostic I can think of.

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