You'll want to use XFree86 4.3 and the "nv" driver that comes
with it.
Mark.
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Christian Convey wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting screen resolutions working right, and
> would appreciate *any* pointers.
>
> I just bought a new Toshiba P25, with a gorgeous 17" screen that's
> native at 1400 x 1050. It comes with at GeForce 5200 FX chip and 32 MB
> of video memory.
>
> When I installed Mandrake 9.1, I chose a screen resolution of 1400 x
> 1050, and to use the "vesa" driver.
>
>
> When I actually got the laptop into X however, I get a funky problem:
> The virtual size of the screen appears to be a little taller than what's
> actually displayed. That is, in KDE, the taskbar that's on the bottom
> doesn't appear, but I can move the cursor a little south of the bottom
> of the screen and interact with that tasklbar.
>
> I see some lines in /var/log/XFree86.0.log that are worrying, but I
> don't know what to do with them:
>
> ...
> (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1400x1050" (no mode of this name)
> (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)
> (II) VESA(0): Not using mode "800x600" (no mode of this name)
> (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280)
> ...
>
>
> Thanks tons,
> Christian
>
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