CentOS - Aug 2005 - screen shifting

Hello List,

I was wondering if there is a way to shift the screens in linux.  I got 
a kvn yesterday, and have a problem when switching from computers, where 
the screen is slightly shifted on one of them.  I have to go into the 
monitor configuration screen and move the screen to the right to center 
it on one of the computers.  Then when moving back to the other 
computer, that screen isn't centered and have to back to the left so its 
centered.   Is there a way to adjust this in xorg.conf so that when I 
switch between the computers, I don't have to switch the computers?  I 
am running CentOS 4.1. 

Thanks,

Dan

Daniel Wright <dw at wonderwave.net> wrote:
> I got a kvn yesterday, and have a problem when switching
> from computers, where the screen is slightly shifted on one
> of them.  I have to go into the monitor configuration
screen
> and move the screen to the right to center it on one of the
> computers ... Is there a way to adjust this in xorg.conf so
> that when I switch between the computers, I don't have to
> switch the computers?  I am running CentOS 4.1. 
If you're using the same scan range and modeline settings in
the Xorg.conf of all systems, you should never see this.

But if you are switching to Windows and its arbitrary scan
ranges used by different video cards, then that won't work.

Use "xvidtune" on the Xorg system to find the modeline for
your resolution(s) and put those in the monitor section.


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On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:11 -0500, Daniel Wright wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to shift the screens in linux.  I got 
> a kvn yesterday, and have a problem when switching from computers, where 
> the screen is slightly shifted on one of them.  I have to go into the 
> monitor configuration screen and move the screen to the right to center 
> it on one of the computers.  Then when moving back to the other 
> computer, that screen isn't centered and have to back to the left so
its
> centered.   Is there a way to adjust this in xorg.conf so that when I 
> switch between the computers, I don't have to switch the computers?  I 
> am running CentOS 4.1. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
...look along the lines of Xorg.conf, dan...it should do what you want

John Rose
> 
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