On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:30:48AM +0200, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > I have a new Toshiba laptop with an NVidia-based card. The screen can do > a resolution of 1600x1200. > > However, when I run X, and I choose a resolution of anything smaller > than 1600x1200, the display is centred in the screen, with a black > border around it. The reason I don't want to run at 1600x1200 is that > the fonts are too small to read. I tried to use my Gnome control panel > to increase the font size, and that works for many applications, but a > number of applications, notably mozilla, and xmms, still use painfully > tiny fonts. I'd rather go back to using a resolution of 1024x768, which > is comfortable for me. > > Any idea how to "stretch" the display to fill the screen in a smaller > mode?
Thanks to everyone who provided input. I finally solved this by downloading and installing NVidia's driver. The installation was a breeze, and after reconfiguring X to use the "nvidia" driver instead of the "nv" driver, and restarting X, it "just worked". I didn't need to specify any special options; the driver simply "stretched" the display to fit the screen, whatever resolution I chose, and contrary to what people were saying, the display does not look bad at all. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
