CentOS - Jul 2008 - Widescreen monitor won't configure to a wide screen - SOLVED

Thanks to Ritesh Khadgaray:
> Is there anything I'm missing?  Some other configuration file or
> record somewhere I need to tweak?
with gconf-editor, check "/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution"
.

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Ritesh Khadgaray
?Ph: +919970164885
?Desktop LinuX N Stuff, RHCE
Software Maintenance Engineer, Pune, Red Hat
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That was it!

mhr

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of
>MHR
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:05 AM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: [CentOS] Widescreen monitor won't configure to a wide screen -
SOLVED
>
>Thanks to Ritesh Khadgaray:
>
>> Is there anything I'm missing?  Some other configuration file or
>> record somewhere I need to tweak?
>with gconf-editor, check
"/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution" .
>
>That was it!
Huh? You fixed it?

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MHR wrote:
> Thanks to Ritesh Khadgaray:
> 
>> Is there anything I'm missing?  Some other configuration file or
>> record somewhere I need to tweak?
> with gconf-editor, check
"/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution" .
> 
> --
> Ritesh Khadgaray
> ?Ph: +919970164885
> ?Desktop LinuX N Stuff, RHCE
> Software Maintenance Engineer, Pune, Red Hat
> 
> That was it!
Yes ... there are 2 places to set this, one is controlled by the 
resolution setting the other is controlled by the Display setting. They 
are at "System => Preferences => Screen Resolution" and
"System =>
Administration => Display" in the Main Menu.

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> Yes ... there are 2 places to set this, one is controlled by the 
> resolution setting the other is controlled by the Display setting. They 
> are at "System => Preferences => Screen Resolution" and
"System =>
> Administration => Display" in the Main Menu.
I had an identical problem at work yesterday with a brand new Samsung 
2243BW 22" LCD monitor (1680x1050), using CentOS 5.1.

No matter what combination of things I tried at the two locations above, 
or in xorg.conf, I couldn't get the resolution right, the screen was 
obviously "stretched" horizontally and the fonts fuzzy.

Since I mostly write code in a console, I eventually just replaced the 
monitor with the original and got back to work :-)

Mick

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
>
> Yes ... there are 2 places to set this, one is controlled by the resolution
> setting the other is controlled by the Display setting. They are at
"System
> => Preferences => Screen Resolution" and "System =>
Administration =>
> Display" in the Main Menu.
>
Doh!  I forgot all about the preference setting....

Ah, well, a little older, a little wiser, a lot grayer....

Thanks.

mhr