[CentOS] Problem with widescreen display

Sun Nov 2 09:16:28 UTC 2008
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.rs> wrote:
>
> I have a dual boot CentOS 5.2 / FC4 machine, and recently I have bought a new
> widescreen tft monitor. I used to use a plain 4:3 crt, and after plugging the
> 16:9 tft naturally X needed reconfiguring. This was easy in FC4, and seemed
> as easy in CentOS, but with a wrong result.
>

As some wise person suggested to me when I had this problem about
three months ago, did you also set the screen resolution in
System->Preferences?  IIRC, that solved the problem on my machine.

HTH

mhr