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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:40:37 +0200
From:      newsmaster <newsmaster@news.myown.framed.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg
Message-ID:  <ecuron$13l$1@jeremino.homeunix.net>
References:  <200608271454.37351.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <200608280705.21475.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <ecuof1$17e2$1@jeremino.homeunix.net> <200608280828.50885.freebsd@dfwlp.com>

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Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid:
<200608280828.50885.freebsd@dfwlp.com>

> On Monday 28 August 2006 07:44, newsmaster wrote:
>> Jonathan Horne wrote in msgid:
>> <200608280705.21475.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
>>
>> > well, i finally got it to render at 1680x1050, but the size of my
>> > desktop is fixed at about 1.5" outside the physical size of the lcd
>> > (and about 3/8" top
>> > and bottom).  ive dont quite a bit of googling, and i am now trying to
>> > figure out if there is a way to constain or shrink the desktop down, so
>> > that i will be at the edges of my screen?
>>
>> Did you try "xvidtune" ? It is disigned for that purpose.
>>
> 
> i did, but i couldnt outwardly figure out what i was looking at.  when i
> go tot he xvidtune page tho, it says its for XFree86... will it till work
> properly for xorg?
> 
Yes, for me its works very well with Xorg.
I bought me a new IIyama lcd screen and I had to add manually
some new mode-lines. You can extrapolate from the existing ones.
Then xvidtune makes the finishing touch. Press on "show" and replace
the mode-line with the output of xvidtune.




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