"Screen too big" (was: No Subj)

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Talbot wrote:

>Greetings
>I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann.  Everything seemed to go fine until I execute startx.  The desktop environment on my screen "seems" to be at least four times as big as it should be, displaying only the top left portion of the desktop. 
>
>The strange part of this problem is that the install program displays all of the display option screens in the correct size and font.
>
>Any advice to get me going will be appreciated.
>
>C. W. Talbot
>cwtalbot at hotmail.com	
>

Hi, C.W.,

   Glad to hear you got everything working!  Someone
is likely to mention to you that this forum (newbies@)
is more of a place for people to discuss their experiences
than to ask questions...the place for that it the questions@
list.

   However, I'll give you a hint.  This is called a
'virtual desktop', and the size is set in your XFree86
Config file after the keyword "Virtual."  But, I'll
also mention, it's the m/l *normal* way that XFree
runs a desktop.  It could just be that that *other*
company made us get used to something different.

Have a great day,

Kevin Kinsey
Daleco, S.P.