Incorrect Resolution

I've seached the internet for this problem, but impossible to search without getting something unneeded
long story short, photoshop is not displaying resolution correctly
i'll create a file that is 100X100 pxls and it will display at around 500X500 pxls even after i hit the "View: Actual Pixels: button
it's made creating small buttons and other things pretty much impossible to do because you don't know what they are going to look like when they are shrunk down
I'm running Photoshop Elements 6 on Windows Vista
my screen resolution is 1280 X 1024

P.S. that block in that picture I attached should be 100X100 but displays that large
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Incorrect resolutions for 16:10 external displays, unable to detect 16:9

Hey there all, this is my first post here. It looks like some people have had similar issues—particularly with an incomplete/incorrect list of resolutions being provided for external displays.
I am shopping around for an external display for my MacBook (my specs are included) and I tested a few different ones today, but encountered problems.
- On a 22" ASUS monitor (sorry I don't have the model) using Mini-DVI to VGA, the native resolution (I assume 1680x1050) is not available, and most resolutions offered are 4:3 ratio (1600x1200 worked). The highest widescreen resolution listed was 1280x768.
- Next I tried a 19" ASUS, this time 16:9, but the monitor would not display at all. The MacBook display would go blue as normal but then flicker, as if it could not detect the display. This also happened with a 24" BENQ monitor (also 16:9).
Wondering whether or not this was a problem with using VGA, I then bought a Mini-DVI to DVI adapter and tried again on the 19" and 24" (the 22" ASUS did not have a DVI-in) but the same flickering blue screen appeared, with nothing displayed on the monitor.
These were my thoughts:
1. My firmware is not up-to-date. I check in System Profiler and am running Boot ROM Version MB41.00C1.B00 and SMC Version (system): 1.31f0. These are definitely up-to-date for my model MacBook.
2. Drivers are out of date. This does not seem likely as I am running OS X 10.5.7.
Other than that, I am at a loss! I haven't yet forked out the $49 to do phone support with Apple, that will be my next bet.
Has anyone had this problem, or have any ideas what I can try? Short of buying a new Unibody MacBook of course .
Thanks guys, hope you can help. Just let me know if you need more info about my computer.

It's unusual to strike out like that with three different monitors using two different adapters. On the other hand, with all the video issues that have been reported by others on these forums since the 10.5.7 update, it's not too surprising.
Is a 10.5.6 downgrade a possibility for you? For example, do you use Time Machine and can you in that case revert to a previous time when the MB was running 10.5.6? Perhaps that's not a great suggestion, but it would be something to try.
There is some remote chance, though somewhat unlikely given that three different monitors are involved, that the embedded display driver data (EDID) in each monitor is bad or incomplete. If you care to investigate that possibility, there is a program called SwitchRes X that allows you to snoop a monitor's EDID and turns it into a human readable text file.
One final suggestion would be to try yet one more monitor to see if any monitor can return a good result. One obvious choice would be an Apple monitor. If there is trouble when trying to connect to an Apple monitor, then that would certainly point to some problem in the MB's configuration or hardware. And not to cast aspersions on the brands you have already tried, but try another brand (if not Apple) that is perhaps more mainstream and known to be more Mac compatible and less firmly in the PC camp where plug-and-display drivers have never mattered very much and are very often botched by the monitor makers. Dell, Samsung and LG are three big brands that come to mind. Good luck.

External display incorrect resolution when MBP lid is closed

Hi,
I've just bought a 24" Samsung monitor for use with my 2011 MBP. The optimum resolution for the monitor is 1920 x 1080. I ahave it hooked up through a minidisplay to vga adapter. When I have this resolution selected in extended display mode it works fine, however when I close the lid and run the monitor with the same resolution as the main display, the image gets squashed and the screen flickers, I can also see faint lines in the background and the display is not centred, leaving black gaps on either side of the screen.
The frustrating thing is it was originally running fine before I temporarily changed the resolution in display preferences when in closed lid mode. Is there any kind of fix for this?? I know it's not the monitor's fault because it's displaying the correct resolution when in extended desktop and on other systems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Chris

tjk wrote:
chrisfromuxbridge wrote:
So I've tried everything I can find on the internet relating to resetting display settings on mac osx, including resetting PRAM and SMC, tried deleting com.apple.windowserver.plist from the preferences folder, tried starting in safe mode and reselecting the correct resolution (i.e. switching to something different and then switching back to 1920 x 1080), nothing. What else can I try??
Any bossy third party apps trying to control things?
Run Apple Hardware Test, and/or a trip to the "genius" bar.
No thrid party apps have access to my display prefs as far as I know. And the hardware test did not indicate that anyhting was wrong. I would like to leave the "Genius" bar as a last resort, they weren't much help last time...
Ok so moving the menu bar is allowing me to use the external as native desktop, but this doesn't fix the resolution problem when I close the lid even though the resolution in display prefs is set the same. Is it possible then to tell the mbp not to sleep when I close the lid?? I know you can do this in windows. Please note that I am still using Snow Leopard v10.6.8

Samsung 204BW 20" Monitor with Incorrect Resolution

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It used to work perfectly fine until 2 weeks ago when it died. I sent it for repair to Samsung. I got it back today. However, when connected, I can only see a 1280x1024 resolution, rather than the correct one, 1680x1050.
When I get the SyncMaster menu under /System Preferences/Displays, the larger resolution shown for the monitor is 1280x1024. Somebody at Samsung suggested to reinstall the nVIDIA driver (graphics card), but the driver is not available on nVIDIA's website. In fact, their site mentions that in the case of notebooks, it is generally the manufacturer who updates drivers for their cards, given the often tailor-made solutions required in those instances.
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I tried your recommended approach about connecting the monitor to other computer. I still cannot get the maximum monitor resolution.
You have no idea what a nightmare going through Samsung customer support has been. To make a long story short, please read the following paragraph.
They have different levels (1,2, etc.) of support, and there were contradictory answers. Some people would point me to download the newest driver version for the video card, mine is nVIDIA. When you go to the nVIDIA site, it clearly specifies that video cards for laptops follow very unique specifications, and should be dealt with the computer manufacturer, so no driver download at the end. Others at the company were saying we cannot point you anywhere, the video card is from a different company. A real disaster. I ended up hanging up after more than 3 hours online on two different days.
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bruno

Hi,
Try to change the HDMI cable. I did display (X1 Carbon 20A7) 4K (3840 x 2160) on TCL (U49S7606DS) using very old but original Panasonic Viera HDMI 1.3a cable. I know it is strange and should not work but it works.
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Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4400 or 5000 in processor,
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Incorrect Resolution OUTSIDE of X

My laptop is an eMachines m2350 (hardware specs). X defaults to using my monitor's 1280x800 native resolution, but the normal console uses something else (probably 1024x768 or 800x600) which looks stretched and blocky.
It has been this way since I got the thing, but I would really like to fix it, so I can try giving up X for a while.
I've attempted altering /boot/grub/menu.lst to add video=radeonfb and video=radeonfb:1280x800-16@60...(stuff I forgot and can't find the website for). I've also tried adding vga=0x31E, which someone on the Ubuntu forums said worked for them. I'm pretty sure I'm going about this the wrong way somehow, but I'm stuck on what else to try. I'd love suggestions.

Sigi wrote:
3 things you could try:
1. Try video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x800-16@60
2. Try video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-16@60
3. Try kernel26beyond with the above or with radeonfb
1 and 2 are interesting only in kernel26beyond, since those parameters are acceoted by vesafb only in the tng flavour, shich is present only in the beyond kernel. With traditional vesafb you have to use the vga parameter.
In general I am not sure if your resolution can be used with vesafb (but your result should be quite good with 1024*768, so you could try with a parameter as vga=791).
I am not using radeonfb now (in order to use it you need to compile your own kernel), but, when I was using it, it simply took the settings from the bios, ignoring the boot parameters. However, if your bios is not buggish, then this could be the best solution.

Kernel 2.6.36 KMS sets incorrect resolution

2.6.35 set the correct resolution for my monitor - 1912 x 1080
2.6.36 (from testing) does not. - 1280 x 720
[jeremy@jeremy-desktop ~]$ lspci | grep ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670]
where can I get the appropriate debug info?

You mean
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Does it have anything to do with KMS? under 2.6.35, KMS set my resolution (correctly) to 1920x1080 before I had anything X-related (including this driver) installed.

Incorrect resolution after upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1

I have W510 4389-P2G which had 1920x1200 resolution in Windows 7 and 8. After upgrade to Windows 8.1 the monitor became blurry and resolution is now 1920x1080. In Device manager I can see Thinkpad Display 1920x1080 driver. After uninstalling the driver and installing newest drivers for W510 and restarting (I also tried drivers for W500) the result is always 1920x1080. What can I do to solve the problem?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

My W510 has always been 1920x1200 until I intalled Windows 8.1
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How do I fix incorrect resolution for Firefox user interface on Retina display Mac?

I have a 15" retina display Mac (roughly a year old) running Mountain Lion. A couple weeks ago the user interface in Firefox seems have switched from using the normal zoom level of every other application to the native dpi of the retina display monitor. This means that the UI elements are all extremely tiny, etc. Is there anyway to reset this without simply reinstalling or reseting the rest of my configuration?
Currently running Firefox 27.0.

You can try to modify the gfx.hidpi.enabled pref on the <b>about:config</b> page (<=0: disable; 1:all screens same res; >1:enable always).
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox (you need to close and restart Firefox).
*Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
You can set the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx pref on the <b>about:config</b> page to 1.0 and if necessary adjust layout.css.devPixelsPerPx starting from 1.0 in 0.1 or 0.05 steps (1.1 or 0.9) to make icons show correctly.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/forum-response-Zoom-feature-on-Firefox-22
Use an extension to adjust the text size in the user interface and the page zoom in the browser window.
You can look at this extension to adjust the font size for the user interface.
*Theme Font & Size Changer: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/
You can look at the Default FullZoom Level or NoScript extension if web pages need to be adjusted after changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx.
*Default FullZoom Level: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/default-fullzoom-level/
*NoSquint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/

[solved] Incorrect Screen Resolution on Boot

As the title suggests my screen has the incorrect resolution on boot. I have an Nvidia card with two monitors plugged into it.
After installing arch I found that screen was blank on boot. This could be fixed in two ways.
Unplugging one monitor from the graphic's card DVI output and plugging it into the motherboard's DVI output. This gave me the correct resolution but if It would require me to reconnect the monitor to the graphics card after I logged in and started X (configured to use twinview with nvidia)
Adding 'nomodeset' to the end of the my kernel line. This option will not require me to reconnect one monitor but uses an incorrect resolution
The second option is what I am currently using. I am wondering if there is anything I can do to fix the resolution whilst retaining the convenience of not unplugging my monitor.
Last edited by Pat55word (2012-03-17 01:03:25)

Sounds like you have the internal graphics activated in the bios even though you use a dedicated Nvidia card. If I were you, I'd deactivate the internal graphics.
Then we come to the resolution. The nvidia driver does not handle the console, so you'll have tp use either vesafb or uvesafb for it. They generally work ok, but they're limited to resolutions in your card's vbios, and in many cases the resolution you want isn't there.
Do a search on the forums and the wiki about (u)vesafb, there's plenty written about them.
Last edited by Gusar (2012-03-17 00:28:38)

Xf86-video-intel problems (resolution, DRI) [SOLVED]

I updated to day the xf86-video-i810 to the new *-intel driver and I encountered 2 problems. I have an old 845G card and an old CRT monitor that I use at 1024x786.
Problem 1: Incorrect resolution
The new native modesettings automatically reads the DCC from your monitor for the different modes and ignores your xorg.conf settings. So I ended up with a 1360x768 resolution and couldn't change it. The solution is to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file adding the following:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-120
Option "DPMS"
Modeline "1024x768" 86.18 1024 1088 1200 1376 768 769 772 803 -HSync +Vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "** Intel i810 (generic) [i810]"
Driver "intel"
Option "Monitor-VGA" "My Monitor"
EndSection
Note that the two important lines I added were the Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768" to the "Monitor" section and the Option "Monitor-VGA" "My Monitor" to the "Device" section. If you're using a laptop you might need to use "Monitor-LVDS" instead of VGA, and if you're using DVI I'm not sure, but you can check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find how's your video output called.
This way I forced the driver to use my settings.
Problem 2: no DRI
I also had no DRI after the upgrade (you can check it with the command "glxinfo | grep rendering"). Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I found that it complained of not having enough memory for enabling it, and in the previous lines it said it was allocating something like 6000 lines for pixmap chache, so I thought that was the problem. I added an Option "CacheLines" "768" to the device section and with that it left enough memory for DRI (note that 768 is my resolution height (1024x768).
Section "Device"
Identifier "** Intel i810 (generic) [i810]"
Driver "intel"
Option "Monitor-VGA" "My Monitor"
Option "CacheLines" "768"
EndSection
Now everything works fine (Xv video, DRI). Performance is even a bit better when using Beryl or GoogleEarth (get a bit more fps in glxgears), and I didn't find any instability so far.
EDIT:
Another thing: Changing resolution crashed the server. This got solved by using the xorg-server-1.3 that supports xrandr. Now all works good, except that the KDE utility to change resolution has no effect. But it can be changed with the command "xrandr -s 1280x1024 -r 60" where -s is the size and -r the refresh rate.
Last edited by Bogart (2007-05-20 20:31:06)

OK - I finally submitted a bug report upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76514
In making the bug report, I realized that I'm using some relevant packages from AUR, one of which was flagged out of date half a year ago: intel-dri-git. I'm going to see what happens when I switch from intel-dri-git and libdrm-git back to simply intel-dri and libdrm.
Last edited by colinkeenan (2014-03-23 16:59:56)

Screen Resolutions in OSX 10.8

Maybe someone can help, but if not - Apple, please sort this out, I've read complaints all over the net going back years...
Screen Resolutions. This isn't difficult Apple. The video card in my 2008 Mac Pro (a geforce somethignorother) can display all manner of resolutions - pretty much anything under 25**x1*** (whatever that res is) is supported. I know this because nvidia state as much on their website, and also because every single video card since the beginning of time (which, for me and computers, was circa 1996) can do it.
So why, when I connect a 24" Acer LCD screen (with a native resolution of 1920x1200) via VGA (vga because it's what I've got running under the floor) do the video resolution options in OSX only include 4:3 and 16:9 formats? I don't want 1920x1080. It's pathetic. My 2006 mac pro running 10.5 has no such problem. This 2008 Mac pro had no such problem while running 10.6 a few years ago.
Here's another example. After giving up with the 24" Acer (being advised to BUY a bit of software to access a resolution is ridiculous), I plugged in my 32" Sony LCD screen, again via VGA. This was interesting. Sony on their website stated that 1360x768 was the highest resolution accessable via VGA, despite the TV supporting 1920x1080 via digital inputs. As soon as OSX detects the TV then surely, 1360x768 is the highest offered resolution. But, if I boot the computer without the TV being on, then switch the TV on, I can set it to 1920x1080, and all is well. Work that one out Sony. A combination of Sony trying to limit their cheap tvs, and Apple interfering.
Anyway, my basic argument and complaint is this: I hate little more than computers that think they're smarter than the user. Even if we disgard the Sony example (which is doubtless a line of code written in the TV, rather than a technical limitation (as I own the 37" version of the TV, and it works at 1080p via VGA no probs - doubt they've engineered two different VGA circuits...)) - there is no excuse for OSX wrongly detecting a screen and displaying incorrect resolutions. Have an idiot mode by all means, but let me adjust the resolution beyond that. Give me access to all resolutions at all times.

Apple doesn't routinely monitor these discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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Or you can use your Apple ID to register with this site and go the Apple BugReporter. Supposedly you will get an answer if you submit feedback.
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Hi GoldenA,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
It may help to reset the NVRAM by following the steps in this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
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I've just upgraded to Windows 7 (64bit).
Thunderbird is not displaying images at the correct resolution: images that I insert into the body of an email and images used in my signature.
The images appear larger than they should and pixelated.
It seems that images are not displaying at the correct resolution inside my emails, whereas in other programs on my machine images are displaying correctly.
When I insert and image into an email using insert>image, the resulting "Image Properties" window displays the image's dimensions correctly. This confirms my suspicion that the resolution is not displaying correctly inside emails (a lower resolution than elsewhere on my screen, which would explain why the images appear bigger and pixelated).
I'd appreciate any help in fixing this problem.
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Hi Zenos,
I've discovered what is causing the problem, but I still need a way to fix it, if possible.
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Caddywompas wrote:
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It's an average entertainment notebook with average specs so it is worth the price, comparatively speaking, but the resolution is indeed incorrect as nobody makes a 1600 x 900 panel in that size anymore as far as I know. That's something you'd occasionally find in the 17-inch and larger notebooks a while back though many of them are currently using the regular 1366 x 768 panels or 1920 x 1080 "FULL HD" LCD panels.

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