From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 11:46:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE4016A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:46:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5962943D55 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:46:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iamlegend@mindspring.com) Received: from user-119a4ko.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.18.152] helo=x51) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BY1Xb-0005h1-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:46:48 -0700 From: "Scott Newton" To: Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:47:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcRNUHDlp61shfbUQNSPpmPzDZ16EwAxO9Vw In-Reply-To: <20040608120057.7F42216A4D8@hub.freebsd.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-Id: Subject: RE: freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 64, Issue 2 - Message 3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:46:48 -0000 Message: 3 Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:11:56 -0700 From: "Mike Eriksen" Subject: Inspiron 8100 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I am a novice to this all and just recently loaded FreeBSD 5.2.1. It is up and running except that I have a black border around my screen. I have the nvidia GeForce driver and was wondering what anyone else has done to correct this issue. I have seen a few remedies, but I am still not sure how to implement them. Thank you for your thoughts. ~Mike~ ------------------------------ You'll need to add the following to your kernel and recompile: (note that you should be able to load these as modules as well) options SC_PIXEL_MODE options VESA Once you have recompiled at a command prompt type: vidcontrol -i mode |grep T This will give you a list of modes that are supported by your video card. You can change your modes to the various ones listed by typing the following command: vidcontrol MODE where MODE equals one of the modes that was listed by the previous command. If none of these suit your fancy, try the following: vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 You can learn more by typing Man vidcontrol To make these changes permanent add one of the following to your /etc/rc.conf file: allscreens_flags="MODE" or allscreens_flags="-g 100x37 VESA_800x600" Hope this helps!