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Need utility to force screen resolution
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Laminar
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May 12, 2007, 06:16 PM
 
My Intel Mac won't recognize my new Viewsonic 22" wide display, so in the display preferences I'm only offered 4:3 screen resolutions. It did recognize my old 19" wide and offered 1440x900 just fine, but it won't work with this one. Back when I was getting my iBook to successfully span its screen, I seem to remember a utility that would force a certain screen resolution and I'd like to find that again.

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May 12, 2007, 06:31 PM
 
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May 12, 2007, 07:06 PM
 
That's it! I'll let you know in an hour if it works....stupid dialup downloads.

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May 12, 2007, 08:23 PM
 
Sweet, it works perfectly. It refused to offer me widescreen resolutions so I hooked the screen to my iBook and took down all the info for a custom resolution and now I have 1680x1050, works great. Thanks!

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