Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

[Peter Risdon]

Bomgardner,Jon wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Doug Poland [mailto:doug at polands.org]
>>Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:54 AM
>>To: Bomgardner,Jon
>>Cc: Henry Miller; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop
>>
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>>>For some reason, FreeBSD and Xorg is only using a small square in
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> the
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>>>middle of the LCD screen.  Any ideas on how I get it to use the full
>>>dimensions?
>>>
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>>On my Dell laptop I have a function key called "Font".  When I push
>>that, my screen toggles from what you describe, to "full-screen", HTH.
>>
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> 
> OK, so I found a BIOS option that enabled me to "stretch"
> the screen however, it is still not using ALL of the possible screen
> space and Xorg still starts in the small window... Almost there... I can
> just taste it....
> 
> anyone got any other ideas?

What resolution are you using? Laptops take this pretty literally, 
generally. If your laptop has a resolution of, say, 1280x1024 and you're 
using 800x600, then you'll often get a display 800x600 in the middle of 
the available screen area.

Peter.



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