The two boxes I use have LCD monitors, of different brands. When in X, the "real estate" area is optimized. When I switch to a VC, the idea the system has about the physical dimensions of the screen changes, and a part of the displayed stuff is cropped. I can adjust it by pressing the Auto button in the monitor controls, but then I get a black vertical strip on the left after switching back to X, and I have to press Auto again, etc.
The boxes have different graphical cards, one with the ATI kernel driver and the other with the nvidia driver. The console driver is VESA-TNG in both cases, but with VESA the problem is the same. Is there some workaround? Some way the coax the system into using the correct physical dimensions in X and VC? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
