I have recently got a Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19" Widescreen LCD monitor. According to a lot users, this is an excellent screen, no cons at all (see cnet.com), but I suspect they all are Windows users. After about a week working on the setup of my computer (SuSE/KDE) and changing the resolution in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/XF86Config (1440x900@60), I could not get the right resolution after all, the picture is still stretched horizontally, which means circular shapes are elliptical. I am about to give it up and sell it and get a normal LCD (perhaps 17", like what I had before). Before doing that, I was wondering if any of you LINUX users has ever used widescreen monitor with such a resolution (or similar), and if you are happy with it, how could you set up the resolution?

Any idea would be helpful.

Thanks.

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I suspect the problem is more to do with your graphics card than the monitor itself. ATi or Nvidia cards should work pretty well if you use the official drivers. Intel integrated cards can be a bit more tricky, but tools like 915resolution might be able to help here.

Either myself or someone else should be able to help more once you've said which card you're using.

Hello,
I take it you are useing Suse..I would open sax2 as root and
see if you monitor and video card is listed correctly..if so then look as the aspect ratio and set your ratio to the native resolution of your monitor..It wolld not be the 4/3 ratio as that is for the older crt monitors..You may have to
fiddle around to get it set but be sure to test it B4 saving
the sax configuration..Goodluck,
jolphil
BTWEDIT:it looks like your ratio is 8/5 not 4/3..1440/900 resolution..
try to set it close to that if you can..

My computer has an nvidia card and also I have my friend's pc here which its graphic card is ATI. Problem is almost the same with both of them. I do not know what you mean by official driver. I have not installed the system myself so how can I figure out if they are not official? And, if not how to fix it?

Thanks.

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How to get into sax2 ?

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Just type sax2 at the command line.

I just went to ControlCenter > YaST2 Modules > Hardware > Graphics Card and Monitor
and changed the aspect ratio to 1.6 (which is my monitor's: 1440:900). I even did not save it, just clicked on "test". Now that I reboot the machine, there is no graphics, just black screen. I can login to the non-graphical mode though. Could you please help me to get my machine back to what it was before?

The official nvidia drivers can be found here. As you're using SuSE, you might also find this helpful.

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I had the same prob with my 931BW. It's not the monitor, it's the graphics card driver and really easy to fix. Follow the instructions in the link and you'll be good to go in a few minutes. Good luck.

http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-...ler-HOWTO.html

hello,
If you still have the Blank screen you can do a ctrl+alt+F3
and login..do a su and password..see if sax2 will start from there..If so set you screen and be sure to test and save the config..
If sax2 will not start type init 3 and login again and do the su password again..try sax2 from there..Again set your screen
and test and save the configuration..From there I usually do
a shutdown -r now command to reboot and you should be back to your GUI...
Let us know how you make out..
Goodluck,
jolphil