advanced arghhhravation.

By basd on Aug 10, 2010 | In -arghhh!!

So... I have an older cheapo external monitor. AOC, I think. Now when my Sony laptop is connected to it, lxrandr thinks it is a 1280 x 1024 monitor. The AOC begs to differ. Not that it doesn't work, mond you, it works fine, other than rendering white a bit grey. (Or is this the monitor dying? Hmmm.)

But, it puts a moving rectangle on the screen telling me "Attention. Input Not Supported." Which is rather inconvenient if I am trying to actually use the computer for something. A bit like playing pacman or some other video game, as I have to wait while the advancing rectangle goes by. Why can't I just turn off the rectangle?

I can switch to 1024x768 -- but then I have a new problem. The mouse pointer disappears.

Yeesh.