All right, I have wrestled the cables into place, and the problem is sort of solved:
robertmo wrote:Jorpho you have 4 options to choose from in your nVidia control panel:
1. scaling to stretch on whole screen done by gfx card
2. […]
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Jorpho you have 4 options to choose from in your nVidia control panel:
1. scaling to stretch on whole screen done by gfx card
2. scaling to stretch on whole screen done by monitor
3. no scaling
4. and the one you want (i guess it is done by gfx card)
It's actually gfx card/the one I want/monitor/no scaling, but whatever.
The problem now is that my other computer uses an ATI Radeon 7500, which doesn't actually have VGA-out. When I attach a DVI-to-VGA adapter and connect it to my monitor's VGA port, every resolution is stretched: 4:3 resolutions like 1024x768 are stretched horizontally to take up the whole monitor, and 16:9 resolutions like 1680x1050 are also stretched such that moving my mouse pointer to the left and right edges of the screen causes the display to scroll.
Where's the option I am looking for in the ATI drivers? I'm using Omega 3.8.252 (Catalyst 6.5), the last version to support the Radeon 7x series.