Re: Laptop display smaller when not connected to external monitor

2013-04-04 Thread Johann Spies
Do you have the screen setup with the 'mirror' option selected? Johann On 28 March 2013 14:43, Brad Alexander wrote: > I'm having a bit of a strange problem. I'm running sid with KDE 4.8.4, and > just received a new laptop at work. I've noticed something kind of odd that > hopefully, someone c

Laptop display smaller when not connected to external monitor

2013-03-28 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm having a bit of a strange problem. I'm running sid with KDE 4.8.4, and just received a new laptop at work. I've noticed something kind of odd that hopefully, someone can help with. The laptop in question is a Dell Latitude E6520, with a resolution of 1920x1080. When I have it at work, hooked u

Re: laptop display

2006-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061110 08:13]: > > > Hello Chris. Thanks for your reply. I did finally get this solved, in > a subthread, "laptop display CORRECTION", where a user suggested to me > that I change the depth from 24 to 16, and to alter the

Re: laptop display

2006-11-10 Thread Mark Grieveson
file may give hints as to "1024X768" should be. It maybe falling back to "800X600" if "1024X768" is not possible. -- Chris. Hello Chris. Thanks for your reply. I did finally get this solved, in a subthread, "laptop display CORRECTION", where a user sug

Re: laptop display

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:15:38AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, reads: > > > >Section "Screen" > >Identifier "Default Screen" > >Device "Trident Microsystems Cybyer 9397" > >Monitor "Generic Monitor" > > > >Default Depth 24 > >Subsection "Display" > >Depth 24 > >Mode

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-11-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > >> > >>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 > >> > >> :-)

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-11-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > >> > >>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, HA

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-11-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson wrote: 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?

Re: laptop display

2006-11-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
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 hel

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-11-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > >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 b

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
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-reco

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
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-reconfigu

Re: laptop display

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 xserve

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Default Depth 24 > Subsection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1024X768" "800X600" "640X480" If ctrl/alt +/- doesn't work, why don't you just left 1024x768 and restart x? Man pages are installed? Zoran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Wayne Topa
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-reconfigu

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:02:04AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > 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-recon

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
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,

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
Mark Grieveson wrote: 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

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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",

laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
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,

i810 X driver causes laptop display corruption

2004-03-25 Thread Andrew Barr
Perhaps someone can help me here...I am confounded by this. I am running Debian testing, kernel 2.6.4, on a laptop with an Intel 855 integrated graphics chip, which uses the i810 X display driver. XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.3.x from unstable (4.2.1 does not support this chip, or so I'm told).

Config for Laptop display..

1998-07-03 Thread Ian Stuart
I'm trying to get my laptop into 1024 by 768 by 16bit colour (it's currently stuck in 8-bit colour) The Chipset is Chips & Technologies CT65550 and it appears to be doing funny things with the clock-line. thanks.. -- Ian Stuart Medicine & Veterinary Medicine Computing Support The University of