Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 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 yoy 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=793 ro :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne -- One picture is worth 128K words. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
