Dang, you've got one heck of a wife! I'll go back to the dark (sorry, Windows) side of the partition and see about adjustments. I presume this means that I'm going to have to tolerate some degree of mismatch on the Windows side in exchange for a better fit on the Penguin side?
Thanks for the suggestion... Best regards, Pete On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 17:56, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 09:49, Peter Spotts wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 > > on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or > > Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four > > to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop > > set up as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on the other side of the > > no-byte zone. The problem doesn't exist on that side of the divide. I > > also made sure I selected the appropriate driver when I installed MDK8.1 > > (ATI Radeon). Any thoughts as to how I can get an exact fit of desktop > > to screen? > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Peter N. Spotts > > Science and technology correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor > > One Norway Street, Boston, MA USA 02115 > > Office: 1-617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 1-508-520-3139 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.csmonitor.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > ...ok...you're going to need a flathead screwdriver, small crowbar, 32oz > ballpeen hammer, 8oz of Mazola, 1 roll of duct tape....OH WAIT, that's > for my wife...sorry... > > Isn't there a means by which you can do a screen adjustment on the > Toshiba? If I recall, there was a utility Toshiba threw on their laptops > that did basically that...albeit a pain to do when booting back and > forth between OS's...can't quite remember the name of it though... > > -- > Sun Nov 17 09:50:01 EST 2002 > > -------------------------------- > | __ __ | > | / \ /| |'-. | > | .\__/ || | | | > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | > | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia > | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com > | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn > | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 > | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 > -------------------------------- > > Life can be so tragic -- you're here today and here tomorrow. > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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