monitor experts, please

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi;
>
>  Been fussing around with new flat screen monitors after my ViewSonic
>  went south.
>
>  One I am trying is an Acer AL2016W 20" wide monitor (RIVA TNT2 Model 64
>  graphics card).  It gives the sync frequencies and vert refresh rate and
>  says that I need to set a resolution of 1680 x 1050.  So I do all that
>  in XF86Conf and it starts fine.  But the image is stretched
>  horizontally, sort-of like the screen.  It is like the regular image has
>  been stretched to fit the monitor.  I need the aspect ratio to be
>  correct because I used CAD to make things that need to look correct ;-)
>
>  Any ideas from all of you graphics card/ monitor experts out there?

Which X driver?
Is this DVI or VGA?
Also, start X with the following command:
startx -- -logverbose 6

and then post the X log.


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