widescreen, memory, etc.

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Tue Dec 4 00:48:10 UTC 2012


On 12/03/2012 06:43 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> Maybe one of you fedora wizards can answer me this:  the Dell dual computer
> I had donated to me runs KDE at some max screen size.  my xclock and xload
> look fine here.  on my new Dell quad that is supposedly better, the xclock
> is slightly out-of-round and my firefox is HUGE.
> 
> So: do I need a video card or can I set some of my 6Gigs of ram for video
> or what?
> 
> I do not want to pay my tech another $minor-fortune to make a house call.
> a few hours ago I thought my system-settings GUI would help me.  Zero.
> 
> Anybody?
> 
> 
It sounds like you don't have the display settings matching the actual
dimensions of the monitor.  If it's a fancy, new, wide monitor the
dimensions are probably 1920x1080, but Google to be sure.

-- 
-- Steve


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