On Tuesday 14 September 2004 04:06, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > A friend has asked me to put Debian on his Sony Vaio. Things are going very > well except for the monitor setup. I'm using the Debian Installer > BusinessCard installer to put Sarge on (as it's about to become the stable > version, this seems right for him.) > > The problem is that the monitor detection is only getting a small square in > the center of his screen for the display. Over half the screen is unused; > it's a large blank margin around the actual display. I haven't reached the > running of X yet, but I'm expecting it to be the same. I'm coming from a > SuSE background. If I were using SuSE, I'd run either Yast or Sax and > correct the configuration. As ashamed as I am to admit it, I don't have a > clue how to address this without those tools. > > Could someone point me in the right direction to correct this? Would really > appreciate it. Sounds like the resolution selected in the XFree86 configuration doesn't match the resolution of the screen itself. If you look in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, towards the bottom there are sections about screen resolution. If you change those around to the actual resolution of the screen it should be ok. -- Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>
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