[lug] Laptop and Second Monitor

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:19:11PM -0800, Jeff Morton wrote:
>I recently upgraded to Mandrake 7.2, which comes with
>XFREE86 4.0.  After the upgrade, whenever I switch my
>monitor from the laptop to an attached external
>monitor, I lose about %10 of the bottom of the screen.
> Has anyone else run into this problem?

Yes.  Typicly the monitor has size and position adjustment controls
on it -- try shrinking the picture some and then moving it up.

Most monitors have different settings for the size and position based
on the resolution and scan rate -- hooking up a new computer to a
monitor may require adjusting of the settings specific to that
computer, and (hopefully) will not interfere with settings for other
computers using different resolutions and refresh rates.

Sean
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