I have that same problem except its not a laptop...And i hate how you cant
see the bottom of the windows. Sorry i cant help
----- Original Message -----
From: Br. Karekin Madteos Yarian, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 4:06 AM
Subject: [newbie] Help...Laptop XServer Problems
> Any help???
>
> I have recently installed Mandrake 7.0 on my HP Pavilion N3215 laptop. I
> can't get X to work at a resolution higher than 640x480.
>
> Mandrake automatically installed the XFree86_FBDev server which is more
than
> RedHat 6.2 did. No matter what I try...and I have follwed the advice of
two
> people on the Linux laptop pages (two different and unworkable solutions
to
> boot) and to no avail.
>
> Here are my card and monitor specs.
>
> Card: Trident CyberBlade 3D 17 AGP with 4096 RAM (stolen from physical
RAM)
>
> Monitor (per HP): HPA 12.1" SVGA Passive Matrix
> VertRefresh: 75 Mhz
> Horiz Sync: 85 Mhx
>
>
> I have tried and failed at any number of combinations with Xdrakres.
>
> Xconfigurator has let me manually input all the above info and still can't
> find a workable resolution. All I want is 800x600. In spite of the fact
that
> my monitor supports 1280x768 while in Windoze.
>
> The BIOS allows me to allocate Auto, 4Mb or 8Mb to Video RAM.
>
> Any suggestions?? I'm about desperate. I wanted to get Linux running on
the
> box so I could travel and learn with it.
>
> Karekin
>
>
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