Bug 23129
| Summary: | X Window display covers only a portion of the computer screen. | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | mark_brissette <mark_brissette> |
| Component: | misc | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
mark_brissette
2000-11-27 15:30:01 UTC
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:29:04AM -0800, mark_brissette@yahoo.com wrote: > > >Number: 23129 > >Category: misc > >Synopsis: X Window display covers only a portion of the computer screen. > >Originator: Mark W. Brissette > >Description: > When I start the X Window System, the graphical display only covers part > of the screen on my laptop (an old Micron Millennia Transport). I've > tried both "800x600" and "640x480" for dimensions in /etc/XF86Config, but > I still can't get the X display to fill the entire screen. Using "1024x760" > hangs the system. My chipset is Cirrus7xxx. I'm not sure how to set the horiz. > and vert. sync numbers. I've played around with them a little bit, but the > display size does not change, even though I have discovered how to make > a "virtual" console (where the entire area of the X display is not all > shown on the screen at once. You have to move the mouse beyond the edge > of the display to get to the edges and the corners. Laptops do not use CRT (a cathode-ray tube) to build up the screen image. They use a fixed matrix of pixels. Thus, the horizontal and vertical refresh frequencies do not in any way apply - you cannot stretch or shrink a physical element of the TFT matrix :) Unfortunately, this means that you're stuck with 800x600, just as I am on my Asus (don't have the model handy right now) :( G'luck, Peter -- This inert sentence is my body, but my soul is alive, dancing in the sparks of your brain. State Changed From-To: open->closed Not a FreeBSD bug. For assistance with XFree86, see http://www.xfree86.org/. |
