Re: Can´t configure XF86 - a newbi really in the need for some help

[Andrei Badea <andrei.badea@movzx.net>]

Christel Schultz wrote:

> Hallo,
>  
> I have installed x-window-system and desk environment om my Fujitsu XS, 
> PIII, with monitor Compal M770 (both from around 1999).
>  
> I think I have put most of the parameters right using dexconf and the 
> screen starts up nicely with driver "vga", the mouse and the keyboard 
> works fine and colours looks fine. But, the picture is terribly 
> enlarged, about ten times too big,  and I find no way to "zoom out" to 
> adapt it to the size of the monitor. I have tried the rest of the 
> drivers, but of them only vesa works but in a very distorted way e g 
> displaying date and time around the screen when i move around the mouse 
> (though the picture fits better).

This may be a timings problem. Try to read

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.html

and play around with xvidtune. But beware, I'm pretty new to Linux, so I 
might be wrong.

--
Andrei