On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:02:04AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I > tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", thinking that changing the > resolution might help, but, it did not help. > I suspect it's something to do with the laptop. This is the first > laptop I've ever had. All suggestions are appreciated. >
I used to have an old Thinkpad (until the screen died when the tent I was camping in got hit by lightening). If I remember right, its something in the bios setup __and__ a function of if its in dual-head mode displaying both to the lid screen __and__ the VGA connector. There's a function button on the screen to address the latter, try cycling through that and see if it fixes it. What happens on a text screen (non X). If its also small then reconfiguring xorg won't help. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
