Re: small screen area on Toshiba Satellite

[kaemtner <kaemtner@web.de>]

Hello Ray,
i use debian 3.1 on acer travelmate and know this problem:

Ray Lozano wrote:

> I recently installed Debian 3.1 on my Toshiba 2405-S201 which has a S3 
> SuperSavage IXC1179 video card.
>
> Most things work pretty well so far, but the "live" area of my screen 
> is smaller than it should be. I have no problems with font sizes or 
> graphics. In fact, I am using  the Epiphany browser to create this 
> message.
>
> The machine has been running Win XP Pro for years and now dual boots 
> successfully. I used Knoppix to resize the NTFS partition.
>
> While XP still fills the entire screen display area of about 11" x 8" 
> as normal, Linux text mode and X both occupy an area in the middle of 
> the screen about 8" x 6" with thick black borders ("dead" area) 
> filling in the rest.
>
> I added the DisplaySize line (which was not created by the 
> installatiion) to my XF86Config-4 file, but that didn't make a difference:
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
>     HorizSync    30-60
>     VertRefresh    50-75
>     Option        "DPMS"
>     DisplaySize    285 212
> EndSection

Here is my XF86Config-4 file it works now in full screen

Section "Files"
       FontPath        "unix/:7100"                    # local font server
       # 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/CID"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
       FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

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

...If this is importent i don t know...
Section "Device"
       Identifier      "Videocard0"
       Driver          "i810"
       VendorName      "Videocard vendor"
       BoardName       "Intel 855GM"
EndSection

...but this shout be good:

Section "Monitor"
       Identifier      "Monitor0"
       VendorName      "Monitor Vendor"
       ModelName       "0"
       HorizSync       31.5 - 48.5
       VertRefresh     40.0 - 70.0
       Option          "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
       Identifier      "Screen0"
       Device          "Videocard0"
       Monitor         "Monitor0"
       DefaultDepth    24
       SubSection "Display"
               Depth           24
               Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"  
<improtent 1024...
       EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
       Identifier      "Default Layout"
       Screen  0       "Screen0" 0 0
       InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
       InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
#       InputDevice     "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
       Mode    0666
EndSection

true this  and look if its happend..
regards
Daniel

> I have looked everywhere for ideas on how to expand the live area to 
> the full dimensions of my screen but have not found anything.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Ray