[linux-help] Re: Display

["John Heffington" <john1982@xxxxxxx>]

The LCD did great in 800x600 except for pixel doubling, but when it goes to
1027x768 the screen centers it self in a box with a blck border. I would
stay in the 800x600 res, but the pixel doubling sux. I did try the generic
laptop LCD res @ 1027x768, but it did just te same as before. Odd????

Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hull" <thull2@xxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:05 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Display


>
> 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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