Acer AL2223W desktop too wide

[Ryan Li]

try opening up a terminal and type: xvidtune
adjust the sliders little by little and hit 'show'
paste what comes up in terminal into your xorg.conf file, save it and then 
try it. (trial & error)
but be careful with 'xvidtune' because it says that it could damage your 
monitor if you don't know what you're doing~
i'm having a similar problem. i just got a touch screen for my system and it 
will display in 800x600 without any problems, but with 1024x768 it shows 
'out of timing'
i played around with 'xvidtune' a bit and got 1024x768 to come up without 
showing 'out of timing' on my monitor but part of the desktop can't be seen. 
i need to do a bit of adjusting too~
please let me know if you find out some other way to fix this problem!

thanks,
Ryan



>I just bought a new Acer AL22223W 22" monitor.  Nice monitor indeed.
>
>I have an Intel 915G video chipset in this machine.   After much head
>scratching I determined that I need to run 915resolution to patch the bios 
>so
>it will support 1680x1050 resolution.  Without it I couldn't get anything 
>more
>than 1280x1024.
>
>Therefore, I installed 915resolution and put this line
>into /etc/sysconfig/915resolution:
>
># Mode to overwrite
>  RESOLUTION="58 1680 1050"
>
>Now I have 1680x1050 running but the picture is about 1/8" too short for 
>the
>monitor and about 1/2" too wide on both sides.  I have a 1/8" black strip 
>at
>the top and I'm missing about 1/2" of my desktop on both of the sides.
>
>There doesn't appear to be a way to set the screensize directly on the
>monitor.  I know that some old CRT's used to have a "zoom" to make the 
>screen
>fit, but maybe LCD's don't work that way.
>
>The on-screen menu tells me that the monitor is running at 1680x1050, H70, 
>V64,
>Analog input.  So I guess I have the right resolution on the screen; the
>desktop is just the wrong size.
>
>I generated a modeline this way:
>
>gtf 1680 1050 60
>
>and I got this:
>
># 1680x1050 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 65.22 kHz; pclk: 147.14 MHz
>Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  147.14  1680 1784 1968 2256  1050 1051 1054 
>1087
>  -HSync +Vsync
>
>However, when I put that in as the last line in the "Monitor" section of my
>xorg.conf, the login screen comes up huge and only partly there, and when I 
>log
>in all I get is an error telling me that Nautilus can't start.
>
>If I remove that line then everything works and I can log in at 1680x1050.
>
>
>
>So I'm almost there.  The resolution seems to be what it's supposed to be.  
>How
>can I tell it to make my desktop taller and narrower so it will fit on the
>screen?

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