[PLUG] Working With a Wide Monitor

[Aaron Burt]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:41:12AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   The power supply on my Hyundai LCD monitor finally died this morning so I
> had to purchase a replacement monitor.

Sorry to hear that.  What'cha gonna do with the old one?  FreeGeek?

> I added the native 1400x900 resolution to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the
> sync frequencies are fine. But, everthing is stretched horizontally
> and is uncomfortable to read. This is especially true as most of my
> work is done in virtual consoles in text mode.

Huh.  So is X handling the resolution OK, or is it stretched too?

As for console, you may be SOL unless you use framebuffer console (and
that may not work either.)  Have you tried booting with "vga=ask" on the
kernel commandline to see what's available?