When I try the "nv" driver, X doesn't come up at all. Well, it may come up, but I get a totally black screen.
At least with "vesa", I can get further, to the situation where the only problem is that the bottom of the screen runs off my display.
Any suggestions? (I'd like to RTFM on this, but to be honest I can't find good documentation regarding this kind of problem.)
BTW, is there some terminology I should be using to describe my particular problem? (The problem that X is placing a few inches of my desktop below the bottom edge of my display.)
Thanks, Christian
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
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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