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steltho
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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject: Screen display not filling monitor [solved] |
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I have successfully installed Gentoo on an old Toshiba Satellite with a 650 Mhz Pentium III and 128 MB of ram. The video card on this machine is: Savage/IX-MV.
There is only one problem with the installation, the display does not fill the entire monitor. There is a 1.5 inch "margin" of black space around the edges of the display. I do no think this is a problem with X, because this problem exists not only when I am running my XCFE desktop environment, but also when I press Ctrl-Alt F1 to access one of the TTY terminals. This was not a problem when I was running the Gentoo minimal installation live cd, so I am pretty sure this problem can be fixed. Also, I used genkernel to configure the kernel, so it should have the same configuration as the live cd. Has anyone seen a similar problem?
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steltho
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I have partially solved my problem by following the instructions here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/31346
My display now fills the entire monitor when I am running the xfce desktop, however, I am still having the same problem as before when I switch to one of the psuedo terminals, but I can live with that. |
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cyrillic
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You can probably get your terminals to fill the screen with these kernel options.
| Code: | Device Drivers --->
Graphics support --->
<*> Support for frame buffer devices --->
<*> S3 Savage support |
Then add something like this to the kernel line of your grub.conf
| Code: | | video=savagefb:1024x768-8@60 |
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steltho
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:22 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your help, I have resolved the issue.
| Quote: | You can probably get your terminals to fill the screen with these kernel options.
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Device Drivers --->
Graphics support --->
<*> Support for frame buffer devices --->
<*> S3 Savage support
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I also needed to enable this kernel option:
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Device Drivers --->
Graphics support --->
<*> Framebuffer Console suport
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Then add something like this to the kernel line of your grub.conf
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video=savagefb:1024x768-8@60
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After I enabled the necessary options and added the above to my grub.conf my problem was fixed. Thank you. |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.
Not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here.
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