Hi, I have just installed RedHat Linux 7.0 on to my laptop which has a Cirrus Logic 7556 video card. By adding the line "vga=0x303" into the lilo.conf file enables the VESA frame buffering (I am not quite sure what this means), XFree86 uses the middle 640x480 of the 800x600 LCD display and leaves the surrounding border blue (though when linux boots all of the screen is used and a penguin appears in a colour box in the top left hand corner of the screen).
I am using the rpms for XFree86 that came on the RedHat 7.0 CDs (including XFree86-4.0.1-1 and XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-33) My Hardware is; AST M Series Laptop with P133MHz Processor and 80Mb of RAM Graphic Card - 32-bit PCI Cirrus Logic 7556 with 2MB video memory; 64-bit video RAM interface with simultaneous internal/external monitor support. Monitor - Type(TFT) SVGA, Size12.1" Diagonal, Max Resolution800x600 - 64K Color, Character Display80 Columns x 25 Lines I have to admit that I am a bit of a novice at this and any suggestions would how to use the full screen would be gratefully rec'd. Thanks, Charlie. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
