[linux-help] Re: Display

[Tom Hull <thull2@xxxxxxx>]

John Heffington wrote:
> I did have linux mandrake 8.1 installed, but I could not get the screen
 > to display in 1027x768 properly. The screen would center itself in the
 > very middle with a nice large black border around it.

That is correct behavior for a laptop screen. With a CRT pixels can be
scaled by changing the sync rates on multisync monitors. With an LCD,
1 pixel is always 1 pixel: when you ask X for fewer pixels it just
centers what you ask for on the overall screen. Therefore, you always
want to use the maximum screen resolution. There are a series of
generic laptop screen options in Xconfigurator: pick the right one
and just use that one resolution.

Also, your previous questions about monitor sync rates are moot, since
LCD screens don't have sync rates.

 > S3 does provide a driver for my Twister card, which I did download,
 > but could not figure out how to install. It was in *.tgz format and
 > I am only familiar with *.tar files.

The suffix is just munged to fit the limited imagination of obsolescent
operating systems. You may have to rename (mv) the file to use a .tar.gz
(but I think tar zxvf *.tgz works fine, and is easier).

 > Oh ya, the only I could install
 > mandrake correctly was by loading kernel 2-2-19 instead of 2-4-78
 > (I think that is the number) because in 2-4-78 the installer would
 > tell that "no hdalists!" and then crash to the point to where the
 > cd-rom would not boot off of that cd. Anywho, I hope to get this
 > all figured out soon.
> 
> Thanks!

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