From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 20 10:11:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05393 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from codie04.ops.aol.com (codie04.ops.aol.com [152.163.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA05384 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:10:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ron@dc.infi.net) Message-Id: <199802201810.KAA05384@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from [152.163.101.11] by codie04.ops.aol.com with SMTP (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA03223; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:10:13 -0500 X-Sender: ron@shellhost.dc.infi.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:11:58 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ron Steele Subject: Re: X11 Screen width short by 1.5" on laptop In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This looks like a classic case of having wrong VGA parameteres. It's been a long time since I had to deal with this, but I think it a delay time. It really doesn't have anything to do with resolution, other than the delays are deferent for each resolution. This delay tells the hardware how long to wait after a horizontal line ends, before it turns the video "beam" back on. I am no expert, so this likely a slightly bungled explanation. One of the programs that comes with XFree86 lets you tune this quasi interactively. I don't remember the name, vgatune or something. Poke around in the X11R6/bin directory. This should get you sorted out. One of the (dozens) of things that I really like about X is that I can tune it so all the modes take up the exact same screen realestate, which also matchs text mode. > > I have installed v2.2.5 on a Toshiba Satellite 115CS, Chips and >Technologies 65545 1MB, passive matrix color. This is my first time >setting up XF86, so have mercy :) > > When I run either xdm or startx, X11 comes up and operates normally, >except that approximately 1.5 inches of the right side of the screen are >not used (remain black). That is to say that all mouse movements and >screen actions work properly, but simply end at at this abnormal margin on >the right. When I scroll (mouse movement) to the right, when the mouse >pointer touches the right margin, the desktop scrolls as you would expect. > > Is there a way for me to regain this "unused real estate"? > > Thanks in advance, > >-Jeff > > The meat of the XF86Config file: >Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" > FontPath To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message