[Novalug] Ubuntu display question

Nick Danger nick@hackermonkey.com
Mon May 18 16:07:11 EDT 2009


I was going to say maybe resolution detection got messed up in 9.04
since I had to manually configure X to do 1280x1024. It autodetected
1124x?? and it made my monitor do this ungodly sounding whine.

But then I read Beartooths response and remembered I had a KVM in the mix.

Nick

Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Pete Nuwayser wrote:
> 
>> On 8.10 and 9.04, I have noticed that external monitors don't always
>> seem to run at their maximum display rating.  In the USB-VGA thread,
>> Mackenzie noted this may be a function of how well the monitor reports
>> its capabilities to the OS.
> 
>  	Until about the last year or two, for every install I had 
> to disconnect each machine from my KVM switch, and that from the 
> peripherals, so that all of them could be connected directly 
> during installs. I don't know whether the current KVM switch does 
> better at transmitting machine-peripheral interchanges, or the OS 
> has gotten better, or what.
> 
>  	Is it possible you've done some things with something 
> else between the PC and the monitor??
> 




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