[linux-help] Re: Display

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Heffington wrote:
> 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!


try 1280x1024. the shrink at 1024*768 indicates that there are not 
enough pixels being displayed to fill the screen.


In Red Hat it tries to set up the video during the install.
If that fails, when signed in as root you can use Xconfigurator to do 
the configuration.



> 
>>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.
>>

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