I have added the ModeLines to XF86Config as per Elliot's instructions. System Settings -> Display says 1400x1050 and a million colors whether the display is taking up the complete screen or whether it is in its small form. We were using "Monitor Model" as the monitor type; we tried "generic laptop" as per Stephan's suggestions.
I did not download any special drivers for the NVIDIA video card. We
relied on the drivers in RH 9.0. There was no /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA*
directories on this laptop. I didn't see how the errata on
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4349/errata-1.0- 4349.txt
pertained to this particular installation. Though thanks, Shawn
The system still comes up with a little display screen that one can enlarge
by using "fn-f7".
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From: Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:12:11 PM US/Eastern To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Nvidia GeForce4 card in a Dell laptop
Thanks everyone for your input. We are still unable to get the login screen to fill up the entire physical monitor. However once we login in and hit "fn" and "f7" together, the screen enlarges to fill up the complete physical monitor. Does that help isolate the problem. The monitor is unknown; the Dell laptop is a "latitude."
Original question:
We just installed RH 9.0 on a dell laptop with a Nvidia GeForce4 video card. We took the suggestions for video from the installation program. We ended up with a system whose window just takes up the middle third of the available screen. All the terminal windows that open up take up the entire system window. Nothing is created in the black two thirds of the screen surrounding the system window.
How do we extend the system window to take up the entire available screen?
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Tom Coady wrote:
Tom Coady wrote:CTL-ALT-F1 login as root and run redhat-config-xfree86 --set-resolution=1600x1200
Forgot to mention CTL-ALT-F7 to get back to X and CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart X
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