Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)
- From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:52:00 -0500
Mark Grieveson(dg135@xxxxxxxxxxx) is reported to have said:
Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad
770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a
centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I
tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", thinking that changing the
resolution might help, but, it did not help.
I suspect it's something to do with the laptop. This is the first
laptop I've ever had. All suggestions are appreciated.
I just finished setting up 2 Thinkpad 770's. It took a lot of
googleing to get a working system running.
You did not mention which kernel you are running, or which boot
loader, and that matters.
kernel-image-2.4.27-speakeasy will not do a fb at 1024x768. I
downloaded the source and it does not allow the framebuffer to be
configured. Your stuck with what you have now with. The
kernel-image-2.6.8 will tho. I tried the 2.4.27 source from security
but it won't compile. You can set up the framebuffer but I can't get
it to compile using kpkg or the old fashioned way.
If you put vga=0x305 in your grub/lilo setup you can get 1024x768 in
kernel-inage-2.6.8.
ie: in Grub
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8y root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x305 ro
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
Wayne
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