Alex, What I mean is that my graphics card supports a virtual mode for 1024x768 when running on the internal display and on the external monitor this shows up as 1024x768. When using on the internal monitor, you only see a window of 800x600 moving the cursor off the screen (at least in windows), shows the rest of the display. The laptop LCD is physical 800x600. Is this any clearer? The laptop is a DELL Latitude LS Rgds on 23/05/2003 18:00, xfree86-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx at xfree86-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:43:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: Alex Deucher <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: RH9,Xfree86 and neomagic laptop video > To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Reply-To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > I'm not quite sure I understand your problem. Have you specified a > "1024x768" mode? you might want to try xrandr to change the > framebuffer size on the fly or Ctrl-Alt-+/- to switch the modes. also > you might have your hsync and vrefresh in your monitor section set too > low. if your LCD and/or monitor support higher modes, then you can > trya nd increase the values. > > Alex > > --- "Thomas V. Fischer" <tvfischer_l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I am trying to configure my laptop neogmagic video driver with >> xfree86. RH9 >> standard packages correctly detect the card and configures it. >> >> My problem is that this card supports virtual screen size of 1024x768 >> but I >> cannot get it to run at greater than 800x600. >> >> This is problematic as when I hook up an external monitor, it doesn't >> allow >> me to get a bigger screen size. >> >> Any ideas on how I can configure this to work? >> >> Rgds >> _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
