Re: 17" monitor thinks it's a 15 inch?

["Stefan Sommer" <stefan-sommer bornholm-gym dk>]

Look in the Videomodes-HOWTO. You should probably make you own config
lines in XF86Config. xvidtune can adjust the screen size to some extend,
but I had to adjust the dot-clock to make use of the whole screen.

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superwomble cyberdude com skrev:
> 
> Have a strange screen problem in X, and have never seen this problem
> mentioned here.
> 
> Have installed 5.2 many times on machines with brand name nd non brand
> name monitors ranging 14,15 & 17 inches. Xfree always installs properly
> on the screen, never needing xvidtune for fine -tuning.
> 
> I have just purchased a PAnasonic PanasyncE70, a very new 17" model I
> believe. When installing 5.1 using this monitor, the desktop is placed
> squarely in the screen, with a 1.5 cm black line of unused real estate
> evenly around the border of the desktop. If you shrunk this monitor down
> to 15", I guess it would be a perfect fit. Xvidtune cannot  resolve this
> problem.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice? Talk about a waste of space!