Abstract: Sometimes Linux doesn’t find the correct monitor settings. This is how to override them.<\/p>\n
Find out what Linux thinks your monitor is called:
\neg under KDE, run Size & Orientation – the monitors available will be shown with their names. VGA1, HDMI1 etc..<\/p>\n
Get the monitor settings you want using the cvt tool: Create or modify the file \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/50-monitor.conf using the line just output: Abstract: Sometimes Linux doesn’t find the correct monitor settings. This is how to override them. Find out what Linux thinks your monitor is called: eg under KDE, run Size & Orientation – the monitors available will be shown with their names. VGA1, HDMI1 etc.. Get the monitor settings you want using the cvt tool: cvt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beneford.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncvt 1280 1024<\/code>
\nThe output will be something like:
\nModeline \"1280x1024_60.00\" 109.00 1280 1368 1496 1712 1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync<\/code><\/p>\n
\nSection “Monitor”
\n Identifier “VGA1” # use whatever name you discovered above
\n Modeline … # as from the cvt output
\n Option “PreferredMode” “1280x1024_60.00” # as on the Modeline
\nEndSection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"