On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Damian <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
David Whyte wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Damian <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> <snip><br>
>> The problem is that when I try to look at the screen from a different<br>
>> machine (I'm usung TightVNC on XP), the display is all garbled. I can<br>
>> log in fine, but it looks like there are about 4 screens interlaced<br>
>> horizontally. I can kind or see what I'm doing enough to press a couple<br>
> </snip><br>
><br>
> I see the same thing on my mythbuntu box. Very annoying. Let me know<br>
> if you find a solution.<br>
><br>
> Ta,<br>
> Whytey<br>
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Hi Whytey<br>
<br>
Mache's solution worked for me. It gives more limited functionality (I<br>
don't think you can log in from the log in screen, so therefore can't<br>
switch users), but at least it works!<br>
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Damian<br></font></blockquote><div><br>The problem is in the xorg.conf Display subsection.<br><br>I had a spurious line, I think generated by nvidia-xconfig: <br><br>SubSection "Display"<br>...blah...<br>Virtual 1280 1024<br>
EndSection<br><br>I had the same issue last night, and eventually discovered the entry. Changed that to :<br>
<br>
Virtual 1024 768 # for vnc - match to screen res<br>
<br>
And that fixed it nicely. May even work without. YMMV <br><br>Mythterious<br></div></div><br>