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Homer J. Simpson
Hi all,
I have a 24" Samsung 245BW monitor I bought maybe 2 months back--great
monitor, no problem and no complaints whatsoever. It's hooked up to an
Nvidia 8800GTS with 320MB, which can run at the monitor's native resolution
(1920x1200) just fine.
I also have an old ATI Radeon 7500 used as a secondary display, hooked up to
an old 17" LG 787LE. According to various posts, that card can do
2048x1536--even higher than what any of my monitors can do.
The Samsung 245BW monitor is currently on sale at a price I couldn't pass
up, and given that I've pretty happy with mine, I decided why not get
another one and retire my old 17-incher one's hooked up to the ATI...
So I just got another identical monitor, hooked it up, installed the driver
(the same as the other monitor, obviously)...switched to 1920x1200...and lo
and behold, it seems like the driver is running the monitor at
1600x1200--eg, it's filling the whole width of the monitor, but everything
looks slightly stretched horizontally, and when the mouse reaches a side (on
that monitor), the entire display scrolls horizontally to show the remaining
320-pixel area (1920-1600)...in other words, it's reverting to the old trick
of using a smaller resolution and scrolling to show the entire display
(yuck!)
If I switch the resolution to 1600x1200, once again, the display area is
filled, but there's no scrolling.
Obviously I'd much rather have both monitors run at the full 1920x1200,
since they're both capable of it.
As mentioned already, according to various posts elsewhere...the Radeon 7500
should be able to handle 1920x1200.
Now what?
I have a 24" Samsung 245BW monitor I bought maybe 2 months back--great
monitor, no problem and no complaints whatsoever. It's hooked up to an
Nvidia 8800GTS with 320MB, which can run at the monitor's native resolution
(1920x1200) just fine.
I also have an old ATI Radeon 7500 used as a secondary display, hooked up to
an old 17" LG 787LE. According to various posts, that card can do
2048x1536--even higher than what any of my monitors can do.
The Samsung 245BW monitor is currently on sale at a price I couldn't pass
up, and given that I've pretty happy with mine, I decided why not get
another one and retire my old 17-incher one's hooked up to the ATI...
So I just got another identical monitor, hooked it up, installed the driver
(the same as the other monitor, obviously)...switched to 1920x1200...and lo
and behold, it seems like the driver is running the monitor at
1600x1200--eg, it's filling the whole width of the monitor, but everything
looks slightly stretched horizontally, and when the mouse reaches a side (on
that monitor), the entire display scrolls horizontally to show the remaining
320-pixel area (1920-1600)...in other words, it's reverting to the old trick
of using a smaller resolution and scrolling to show the entire display
(yuck!)
If I switch the resolution to 1600x1200, once again, the display area is
filled, but there's no scrolling.
Obviously I'd much rather have both monitors run at the full 1920x1200,
since they're both capable of it.
As mentioned already, according to various posts elsewhere...the Radeon 7500
should be able to handle 1920x1200.
Now what?
