Greetings ....
I'm running a dinosaur age vintage 1999 Compaq box
using an up-to-date Debian Sarge OS that was first
installed in July 2004 and has been running fine since ....
Video adapter is on-board .... [SiS] 530/620 PCI/AGP VGA
and default screen resolution is 1024x768 on a 15 inch monitor ....
I started having some odd display problems a while back
and it's now bothering me enough that I would like to try
and correct it ....
Symptoms ....
o When I re-boot the machine or switch to a different
virtual terminal the console display seems to be
using a screen resolution that is too wide to fit
the screen with several characters off-screen to the left
and rendered in a large font size ....
o At the end of the initial boot sequence when X first
starts up the gray cross-hatched background doesn't
fill the entire screen but leaves about a half inch
blank border all the way around ....
I use the kdm display manager and the blank border
persists when kdm starts up and the login dialog
is presented ....
o If I select KDE from the login menu, then a few seconds
into the KDE startup the blank border disappears and the
screen is filled completly and all displays under KDE
fully fill the screen as expected ....
o If I select any other window manager from the KDM menu
( enlightenment, fluxbox, fvwm, icewm, xfce ), then the
blank border persists and the screen is not completely
filled ....
Otherwise, displays with the window managers other than KDE
are fine ....
# --------------------------------------------------------------
XF86Config-4 ....
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-60
VertRefresh 50-75
DisplaySize 325 245
Option "DPMS"
Gamma 1.00 1.00 1.00 # created by KGamma
EndSection
....
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
# --------------------------------------------------------------
I've tried ....
# dpkg-reconfigure XF86Config-4
# xrandr
# xvidtune
# --------------------------------------------------------------
Any clues and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated ....
--
Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona
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