The Problem: When I start Xwindows, the screen doesn't fit on my screen :)
In other words, I am unable to see an entire maximized window.
The Medium: I've installed RedHat 7.2 onto my Ashton Digital Maximate 420
Laptop. It dual-boots with Windows 98 which displays perfectly. It's a
Pentium III 850Mhz, 22GB, 256MB RAM, with a "14.1-inch XGA active-matrix
TFT display supported resolution 1024x768 with up to 16M colors" LCD
Display. The Graphic controller is a SiS 630.
Some failed solutions:
I've booted to the shell and ran Xconfigurator and tried millions if not
billions of the trillions of graphics configurations. Here's a run-through
of one of my tests: I ran Xconfigurator and it promptly recognized my
SiS630. I chose "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768" with 64MB (like the
specs in my documentation say). I chose "No Clockchip Setting" and then 16
bits 1024x768 and tested X. I could see the screen, however I could only
see the top-left corner of what should be seen (I could only see "Can you
see this messa--" where "message" was cut off by the right side of the
screen).
I then tried xf86cfg from the shell which started a weird half-second
flickering of the screen. I was forced to CTR-ALT-BACKSPACE back to the shell.
The closest I could come to a 'useable' (not hardly) display was by
setting the resolution to 600x800 which allowed my to see about 90% of the
screen. With this setting I could browse the web and everything, but the
search field in Yahoo took up most of the screen. Not acceptable.
Any suggestions? (I am a total newbie at Linux and have been simply
following suggestions from my "RedHat Linux 7.2 Bible" compliments of
Barnes & Noble)
Adam B.
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