A thought I had, for X ... if you think your laptop (this is on a laptop, right?) screen is capable of 1024x768 (hey, your graphics card seems to be :) you might wanna read up on your machine (try that laptops site someone mentinoed) and check in your XF86Config file that your Horizontal Sync (HSync) is right. IIRC I had a similar problem once on a dell laptop with the difference between 800x600 and 640x480 - default DeadBat install messing around with the HSync it came right.
Just thought I'd chip in with my 2c (or whatever it is these days :) Cheers, Gareth On Thursday 30 January 2003 18:56, Isaac Devine wrote: > thanks for that, > I read the config file and found-out/rememberes I was running in > framebuffer console-mode! > The config said you can pass args to lilo to change the resolution so I > passed the 800x600 one it worked perfectly. > thanks for pointing me in the right direction. > > Isaac > > Tim Wright wrote: > >On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Isaac Devine wrote: > >>I just installed Slackware, (thanx 4 all the help(pcmcia working fine)) > >>and in the configuration part it asked me what screen resolution or > >>something I use for the console. It said that it it also used for X and > >>one is the safest. I chose 1024 x 1??? screen and I actually have a > >>800x600 screen. What is happening is that after boot when I login where > >>I am tying is actually below the screen so I can't read it unless I hold > >>down enter till it comes up. This behaviour is occuring in X also, I am > >>only seeing the top of the screen. The machine is a toshiba satellite > >>pro 470CDT 133Mhz 32Megs RAM. > > > >try pressing ctrl-alt-F1, logging into a text console, and editing the > >file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (using emacs should be fine-it has a no X > >mode), and removing the 1024x1??? line to 800x600. Then it should be all > >good :) > > > >Tim Wright > > > >Assistant Lecturer > >Department of Computer Science > >University of Canterbury > > > >http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13
