1680x1050 (native res.) has 8mm black columns at either side

[Giuliano Marco]

I've just installed F7 (64-bit) on my AMD64. (The package updates are currently being downloaded.)

Unlike the F7 (32-bit) installation on my Celeron/i915GM laptop (which has 1280x800 native ws), the screen isn't maximized to it's full horizontally; there's an 8mm gap/black column on each side.

Both my monitor and GFX card have been recognized, When I look at System->Admin->Display, it shows:

Resolution: 1680x1050
Monitor type: 20WGX2 (autoconfigured)
Video card: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800GTS]

Here's a section from my /var/log/Xorg.0.log :

(II) NV(0): #6: hsize: 1680 vsize 1050 refresh: 60 vid: 179
(II) NV(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) NV(0): clock: 146.2 MHz Image Size: 433 x 270 mm
(II) NV(0): h_active: 1680 h_sync: 1960 h_sync_end 2136 h_blank_end 2240 h_bor
der: 0
(II) NV(0): v_active: 1050 v_sync: 1053 v_sync_end 1059 v_blanking: 1089 v_bor
der: 0
(II) NV(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 75 Hz, H min: 31 H max: 83 kHz, PixClock
max 170 MHz
(II) NV(0): Monitor name: 20WGX2


I noticed the image size quoted in millimetres - 433x270mm in the log file - which is physically correct. But the actual display shown only measures around 417x270mm.

Is there anything I can do to expand it to use the full screen?

[Giuliano Marco]

I've just rebooted after the package updates had finished, and the screen is now expanded to it's full extent. There is no gap/black column at either side any more.

How strange.

Glad it's OK now, though. I chose F7 as my preferred distro as it's one of the few which automatically recognizes i915GM ws (1280x800) straight out of the box, so I thought it'd also work for 1680x1050 as well.

Looks nice.