Some of our students found the answer on www.linux-laptop.net under the
second entry for Dell Latitude C840. The answer followed in the vein of the
answers that I was getting from this news list. So thanks to all of you.
/etc/X11/XF86Config was modified to add/change the following lines
Under the Monitor Section
ModelName "Dell 1600X Laptop Display Panel"
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 85.0
ModeLine "1400x1050" 129.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050" 151.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050" 162.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050" 184.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync
Under the Screen Section
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x86
4" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Begin forwarded message:
From: Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:09:47 PM US/Eastern
To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: Nvidia GeForce4 card in a Dell laptop
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".
Begin forwarded message:
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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