On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Robert Heller wrote: *snipped*
These machine boot off the network and then mount their root (/), /usr, and /home file systems via NFS from the server and function otherwise as normal workstations. And they work great with 4:3 monitors. Recently, because of new cataloging and circulation software which seems to have been designed by (open source) developers who probably have new widescreen monitors on their machines, we have put widescreen (16:9) monitors on three of the machines (various menus and toolbars don't fit on a 4:3 monitor, even at 1280x1024 [19-20" monitor]). But we are having some problems getting the proper aspect ratio (or even a display at all) on two of the three.
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Hi Rob.
What desktop GUI are these machines using?
Is there some way you get each machine to use it's own custom xorg.conf file, that you can tweak for each particular machine?
I use this this in my PC running Centos 5.8 32 bit, and XFCE desktop, to give me a tall virtual screen that I can scroll around vertically:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "Monitor 1024x768" HorizSync 31.5 - 61.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 Option "dpms" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Virtual 800 1800 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
Kind Regards,
Keith
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