Widescreen Display
 

Hi all
I use a 17" Widescreen LCD tv as my monitor. I run FC3. Is there anyway that i can get a 16:10 ratio or 1280x768 resolution on my computer. I use ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with 256MB. I would love to use the widescreen feature rather than streching the screen from 1024x768 to 1280x768. I would greatly appreciate your help.

Sure, just change your resolution to fit your screen.. I've done 1280x800 on some screens with no problems.. you don't have to use the standard settings for square screens. ;)

My monitor does not support 1280x800 resolution. The only resolutions it supports are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x768. I can only set it to 16:10 and not 16:9.

What kind of monitor is it?

Its a Samsung LTM1775W LCD TV

Well i finally got it to work.

i added a line in xorg.conf under the screen section. I added "1280x768" in modes and restarted. It worked and now iam enjoying the Wide Screen effect. Looks awesome. Another reason to not use windows.

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Graphics Adapter"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "backingstore"

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x768" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection