hey all,
you know you can use your OSD with the buttons on your monitor to resize the display, rotate, change location and all that? my monitor alignment works with windows but its crooked with linux... the downside is, if i reconfigure with the monitor settings, it'll be off in windows.
im using madrake 10.1 and theres a thing in the taskbar called resize and rotate; i'm fairly sure this is what i want to use, right? if it isn't, please reply because id hate to get it working and have done it for nothing.
the problem im having is that my (quote here) "X Server does not support resizing and rotating the display. Please update to version 4.3 or greater. You need the X Resize and Rotate extension (RANDR) version 1.1 or greater to use this feature"
i googled it and no luck, all the pages are different distros or in foreign languages. how do i make RANDR work?
thanks for help,
-sam

Right idea, but different toy... xvidtune

Its hard to explain how it works, but you can non-interactively adjust the monitor settings, horiz and vert up or down some pixelage and widen/narrow, grow/flatten the avaialable area. I hate to say crap like this, but its all in the manpage. At work we hotdesk at a NOC, so we drive swap and when the 1 windows guy has been at the machine I use, everything is set funky, luckily the same sort of funky every time, so I've got a script that de-funks it all in one go... Once you work out the exact commands, you can stick them in a .xinitrc file in /home/username or in the master one for your xserver (probably better), in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (probably at the end of the file).

If you get stuck, just post back.

Cheers,

Finegan