!! Cannot get full laptop screen

[hiberphoptik]

I remember having this problem with Mandrake 6

When Fedora starts up X is a small square in the middle of my laptop screen, it does not fill the entire screen

I have tried changing resolutions and color depth but it is not related to those settings. Funny thing is, GRUB is full screen, and the FIRST time i booted the bootup screen and user setup screens were full screen, now after going through the last of the setup process its now a lame small screen.


this crude asccii drawing is a sample of what it looks like, the outside box is my screen and the inside box is what X fills and where my mouse is allowed to roam

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anyone know how to fix this?

Toshiba Satellite 4100 XDVD
cyber trident 9525 vid card
FC2 test3 (yes i know i know its a test version)

[hiberphoptik]

ok so that asccii drawing didnt post very well just imagine a small square inside a larger square :)

[hiberphoptik]

OK OK figured it out, if anyone else has this issue, simply run thru the xorg.config file and uncomment out the horiz and vert refresh settings then restart X

:)

[jorvis]

I'm having a similar problem with my Tecra 8200, but when I comment out those two lines X fails to load, complaining that there were "no valid modes found" and "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration".

crap!

: )

[kf6kmx]

Originally posted by jorvis
I'm having a similar problem with my Tecra 8200, but when I comment out those two lines X fails to load, complaining that there were "no valid modes found" and "Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration".

crap!

: )

Does your 8200 have a Fn-key combo calling itself 'Font' or something similar? On some of the Dell Latitude series there is a key-combo to change the hardware resolution.. it shrinks everything to a smaller scale to increase the resolution/clarity, but you get a huge blank border on the screen.

[jorvis]

The border was finally fixed when I used the following file XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11 (note, this worked for both Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 10). There is still like a 5 pixel wrap problem that is a bit annoying, but it is certainly more usable now. Again, this is the best config file I have managed so far for a Tecra 8200

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Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7110"
#if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype:"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "NoPM" "on"
Option "Pixmap" "32"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "xie"
Load "bitmap"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "int10"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Trident CyberXP"
Driver "trident"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "DPMS"
Option "Display1400"
# Option "CyberShadow" "false"
# Option "CyberStretch" "true"
VideoRAM 16384
Option "BackingStore" "On"
Option "saveunders" "On"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Toshiba Tecra 8200 1400x1050 LCD"
VendorName "Toshiba"
ModelName "xsvga+"
HorizSync 28-90
VertRefresh 40-110
Option "DPMS"

# ModeLine "1400x1050" 107.85 1400 1450 1500 1999 1050 1058 1070 1150
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Trident CyberXP"
Monitor "Toshiba Tecra 8200 1400x1050 LCD"
DefaultDepth 16
# DefaultFbBpp 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
# InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection



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[LackeyLad]

for my screen the answer was a bios problem. my dell bios did not support my screen resolution for some reason

[wysiwyg1973]

I've been running Redhat 4.x through 9.x on this laptop (4020CDT) without unsolvable display problems. I am unable to get rid of the display "dead space" between the display and edges of monitor with Fedora 3 core. I've tried everything I know....including searching the web...ergo my first post ever. I've tried bios fixes, xorg.conf fixes, Fedora re-installation, X11 faqs, and no success. xvidtune is useless. It has been frustrating, given that RH has worked not only on this machine but others. I went to Fedora 'cause I ain't gonna pay, but this is absurd. I admit that I might have missed something, but there is minimal support for this issue. I even searched online for "display bigger than monitor", to see if I could reverse engineer it....to no avail.

For what it is worth, here are a few lines from /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(II) CHIPS(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz
(II) CHIPS(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz
(II) CHIPS(0): Clock range: 1.00 to 110.00 MHz
(II) CHIPS(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) CHIPS(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
... etc.

and from /etc/X11/xorg.conf...

#FOOBAR?
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
# DefaultDepth 16
DefaultDepth 8
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
# Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

BTW I'm multibooting this laptop to W98, RH6.x and RH9.x, and have no problems.

Any help would be appreciated. I'd even be willing to help write some code to get over
this problem.

[some1l8]

thanx jorivs, the conf works for me except about 5 pixle shift right. screen looks much better now.