

It helped me to fix the problem, as follows (the output of the cvt command being the modeline which was used in the next command): cvt 1600 1200 1 This did not work well at all with my laptop, which has 1920 x 1200 resolution.Īfter much frustration, I found this answer. Suddenly, the laptop no longer recognized it as a ViewSonic, at which point it did not know its optimal resolution ( 1600 x 1200), only allowing a max of 1028 x 768. I set it up to use the external monitor as a second screen (i.e. I have a laptop running Linux Mint attached to an external ViewSonic monitor. How can I make the configuration "stick"? Details My laptop keeps forgetting the correct resolution of the external monitor attached to it.
