You have said enough for me to give you a general answer, based on a guess,
but not the specific one you need.
First, the general answer: it sounds like you have X setup to use a virtual
display that is larger than your actual, physical screen. What you are
seeing is a "feature" of X, although it is one that many users of X (I, for
one) do not care for.
Second, the norm in X, if you don't tell the setup program differently, is
to use a virtual display equal to the largest real screen size your
equipment (monitor + video card) can display. This may be greater than the
resolution that X starts in. To see if you have a higher resolution active,
use the keyboard chord ALT-CTRL-+ and see if it shifts you to a resolution
in which the virtual display is the same size as the screen.
Third, how to fix this depends on which program you used to set up X. If you
used xf86config, you fix it by editing the video modes by hand, either
eliminating ones higher tan what you want to use or reordering them so the
one you want is the default (X will default to the first valid mode it can
find).
BTW, there is no such thing as "Linux 5.3". The 5.3 is a version number for
a particular distribution, not for Linux itself. I think both Makdrake and
SuSE had versions numbered 5.3, and prehaps there are others I'm forgetting.
If you pose further questions, it would be good to be specific about the
distribution and version you are running.
At 03:49 PM 11/21/99 +0800, fuqaing wrote:
> I'm a newer of linux. I'm setuping Linux 5.3 . My video adapter is
>S3 630. When I config video driver in setup, Linux can probe the
>adapter, but I can see a part of screen when I run startx, I need move
>mouse to see the rest of screen. why?
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