[FredLUG] Re: What am I missing?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:12:40AM -0400, Robert Lay (W9DMK) wrote:
> 
> Dear Paul,
> 
> I don't think this monitor could be more than 3 years old - it's a ViewSonic 
> 17"..
> 
> I have used the Fedora 9.0 Live Image, and I played it on this desktop 
> system before trying the install from the Fedora 9.0 DVD, and I also played 
> it on the Laptop to see if it acted the same as the Ubuntu Live image - it 
> does. They both show only the upper left 2/3 of the screen.
> 
> During the Ubuntu Live Image experiment, it gave me a Video Resolution tool 
> which I thought would allow me to set up the necessary resolution of 1280 x 
> 768, but it did not. Perhaps I just don't kow how to work that tool.
> 
> I can play with the idea of booting the Fedora Live Image from a thumb 
> drive. I have a 1 GB model to which I can copy the the image from the CD.
> 
> Presuming that that is a practical way of doing it, I can try that today, 
> but I don't see how that will be better than the experiment that I alread 
> ran from the Fedora Live Image.

Perhaps not.  It might be worth trying a *newer* Live image -- it's
possible to create a brand-new F9 Live that includes all the updates
pre-shrunk and ready to wear.  It's possible that might help your
situation.  Or it might work no better! :-)

In any case, we can definitely spend some time Thursday looking at
your laptop to figure out how to find a better resolution for you.
One thing you can do is to muck with the "Screen" section in your
pre-generated /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, so it looks something like
this:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Obviously those modes are going to depend on your actual hardware, but
if it's capable, you can change this file and then restart X (logging
out is usually sufficient on Fedora, not sure about other
distributions).

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