On Tue, 06 May 2008 10:57:13 -0700, borepstein@gmail.com wrote:

> So the question is - what's up with all this? How do we fix it?

Let me know if figure it out, I had the same exact problem and could not
fix, s0 I went back to Ubuntu.



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borepstein@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> We are trying to get this display working with a Dell 755 under
> OpenSuSE 10.3. The graphics card we use is an onboard controller which
> is an Intel Q33/35 implementation.
>
> The maximum native resolution of the monitor is 1680x1050. When we try
> to run it in that resolution on the Linux box it paints about 2/3 of
> the screen on the right while reporting correct resolution through the
> monitor menu.

i have had this problem if monitor has auto button using it should fix the
problem.

example in winxp their is no problem but when i installed opensuse 10.3 and
got round to the monitor configuration i had the above problem.

second thing to try get a graphics card that might be a better solution
> I also tried configuring it as a second monitor on a
> laptop which has OpenSuSE 10.3 and Windows Vista. Under SuSE it gets
> stuck in the 1280x768 mode; under Vista - which, by the way, does not
> support 1680x1050 - it goes either in 1600x1200 (don't know how) or
> 1680x1050, H: 65 KHz, V: 60 Hz.
>
> So the question is - what's up with all this? How do we fix it?
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Boris.

borepstein@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> We are trying to get this display working with a Dell 755 under
> OpenSuSE 10.3. The graphics card we use is an onboard controller which
> is an Intel Q33/35 implementation.
>
> The maximum native resolution of the monitor is 1680x1050. When we try
> to run it in that resolution on the Linux box it paints about 2/3 of
> the screen on the right while reporting correct resolution through the
> monitor menu. I also tried configuring it as a second monitor on a
> laptop which has OpenSuSE 10.3 and Windows Vista. Under SuSE it gets
> stuck in the 1280x768 mode; under Vista - which, by the way, does not
> support 1680x1050 - it goes either in 1600x1200 (don't know how) or
> 1680x1050, H: 65 KHz, V: 60 Hz.
>
> So the question is - what's up with all this? How do we fix it?
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Boris.
Try manual hacking in xorg.conf which is the usual way of difficult
configurations.
Taco