Re: weird display issue

["Stephen L Arnold" <arnold steve ensco com>]

On 6 Jan 00, Matthew Foust had questions about weird display issue:

> I am a RedHat newbie.  Just did a fresh 6.1 install out of the
> box on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 200/MMX.  When I type the startx
> command to enter GNOME, my display  moves way to the left.  When
> I adjust my display and move it back, it only stays in place for
> about 10 seconds and then snaps back to being way off to the
> left.  Any ideas? 

How are you "adjusting" your display?  Do you mean using the 
monitor size and position controls?

If your display is centered under windoze but not under RedHat 
(using the same video mode) then you should adjust it in X using 
xvidtune.  Also, modern monitors will "remember" your adjustments 
of the front panel controls, but each mode (up to some number of 
user-defined presets) is unique (ie, your adjustments while in 
800x600 will not carry over to another resolution).

I know, it should work better than that, but each video card puts 
out it's own unique signal for each video mode (even if they use 
the exact same graphics chipset, they will still need different 
monitor tweaks for the same modes).

Check out the docs on the xfree86.org site, and poke around on your 
system.  You'll find some interesting info in

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc

Steve

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