Adding a widescreen monitor in Linux
Recently I purchased a 23″ wide screen monitor for my primary desktop PC. I had a feeling there would be a bit of an issue when I plugged it into my Elive Compiz installation that isn't as user-friendly as, say, a Ubuntu installation. When I did plug it in it wasn't horrible. The biggest problem I had was the new aspect ratio of the monitor (16:9) was causing everything on the screen to seem stretched with the previous resolution (1280×1024).
The monitor itself was reporting that the ideal resolution was 1920×1080, so I figured it was just a matter of adding the correct mode to the “Screen†section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (see more about this in my article “Get to know Linux: Understanding the xorg.conf file“). It wasn't that easy.
Recently I purchased a 23″ wide screen monitor for my primary desktop PC. I had a feeling there would be a bit of an issue when I plugged it into my Elive Compiz installation that isn't as user-friendly as, say, a Ubuntu installation. When I did plug it in it wasn't horrible. The biggest problem I had was the new aspect ratio of the monitor (16:9) was causing everything on the screen to seem stretched with the previous resolution (1280×1024).
The monitor itself was reporting that the ideal resolution was 1920×1080, so I figured it was just a matter of adding the correct mode to the “Screen†section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (see more about this in my article “Get to know Linux: Understanding the xorg.conf file“). It wasn't that easy.