Plug and Pray rant

[O. Sinclair]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 13:41, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> Just added a newish LCD 17" to a simple Compaq DesktopPro machine which
>> is probably about 4 or 5 years old.
>> Anyway, as soon as X kicked in (got to the login screen) the [LCD]
>> screen pops up a message saying "Out of Range"; so I did an Ctrl Alt F1
>> to get to a terminal and after logging in did the 'dpkg-reconfigure
>> xserver xorg'. After answering the questions as best I could and letting
>> the auto-detect stuff do their thing, I restarted the computer. It
>> wouldn't load X.
> 
> I am going to guess that this is a wide screen format, and that you were 
> trying to use the wide screen settings.  There is an Ubuntu wiki for doing 
> this.  The problem is that settings that shouldn't work, work better.
> 
> I found that 1024x768 works perfectly with my 16:9 screen though it shouldn't.  
> A support guy at Norwood, my monitor manufacturer, told me it worked with 
> his.
It very likely has to do with the freqency sweep. A normal CRT will
today work at 70-75 hz at least where as an LCD rarely works above 60
hz. This requires fiddling with xorg.conf to get it right.

Sinclair