On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > I have a new Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 laptop, running RedHat 9. The > video card is NVidia-based, with 32MB RAM, and can handle a resolution > of up to 1600x1200. When I choose this resolution, the entire screen > is filled, and I have a beautiful, large desktop under GNOME. However, > this is too big, and the text is all too tiny to read, so I wanted to > make the resolution smaller. However, if I load up > redhat-config-xfree86, and set the resolution lower, to say 1024x768, > and then restart X, then my chosen resolution appears, but in a > smaller box on the screen. It does not occupy the full screen, and so > the text remains as small as ever, not taking advantage of a large > physical screen. I have never seen this funny behaviour before on any > system. On all my other computers, X just works fine, stretching the > display to fit the physical screen size. Any ideas what might be > wrong, and how I can correct this?
Many of the newer laptop displays are optimized for a specific resolution, and other resolutions look crappy, so they pretty much stay at the one physical resolution and just allow you to change the virtual resolution. I would leave your laptop in 1600x1200, and adjust the font sizes so that you can read the text. The font sizes can be adjusted by going to the redhat button->Preferences->Font. You should find all that you need there. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
