stretched screen

[Michael Havens]

lspci says this about the video:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9804

'X.org video driver' is the only information I can find about the video
driver



On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Drivers probably aren't working right and probing the right resolutions
> from the display.  Check your drivers in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  What kind of video is it?  If ati/nvidia, you'll want
> to install the proprietary blob drivers to get any level of performance and
> features.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 11/30/2011 08:44 PM, James Mcphee wrote:
>
>> xrandr --auto  ?
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2011 8:37 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    I was playing a game and after I closed the game the screen was
>>    stretched. I tried 'system settings' but it was too basic. I googled
>>    'linux mint 12 screen stretch' But that didn't tell me anything...
>>
>>    Then I figured I would restart it and see if that would fix it and
>>    it did. Any idea how I can fix it without the restart?
>>
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