[On Mon, 01 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:]

| Depends. If you move the mouse around the screen, does the monitor "move"
| its view of the (virtual) underlying screen? How big is your monitor physically?

No, its not.

| The simplest possible problem you might be facing is that your system is set
| to display a virtual display larger than the real display. Try pressing
| (simultaneously) the CRTL-ALT-NumericPad+ keys and see if that reduces or
| eliminates the problem.

You mean, lik Ctrl+Alt+1 ? It doesnt work.

| If it does, you'll want a more permanent fix. For that, go into the file
| /etc/XF86Config (using a text editor) and find the section called "Screen"
| -- there will be several, and you need the one that goes with the X server
| you chose to install (probably SVGA or one of the accel[erated] servers).
| Alternately, you might want to use the program xf86config to do the setup.
| It walks you through the steps needed and, at the end, creates a proper
| XF86Config file for you. Probably easier than editing XF86Config by hand.

I used XF86Config to do this, but I have never seen X behave like this
afterwards.. Should I try another server than SVGA, or is this just a
matter of hacking the /etc/XF86Config in the right way ?


Any help would be great ;)


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