Screen shifted

Czernay · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 15

I've had a perfectly well running Gentoo system with kernel 2.6, gdm and xfce.

All of a sudden (well, I'm afraid it was after I tried to boot my Gentoo from coLinux in WinXP), when I booted the system, the whole screen was shifted down about 2 centimeters, so I couldn't see the last two or three lines on the console. The area at the top of the screen is garbled now. This seems to be some setting inside my graphics-card (GeForce Ti4100), as it happens also in Grub and when starting WinXP (only on the boot-screen, login is ok and desktop, too).

Any ideas?

StarDragon · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 390 Location: tEXas

Czernay, are you using framebuffer? I seemed to have the same problems when I enabled it on my new LCD screen, the only way I got around that was to get rid of it in the kernel, it was just wasting good memory anyway.

Czernay · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 15

I'll have a look at it and try it. The interesting thing is, that it is always shifted - even during BIOS output while booting or during Windows boot showing the XP loading screen.

marvin5 · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject:

Well, if it's even during BIOS, it may just as well be a hardware problem...
What kind of monitor are you using, LCD or CRT? And if it's LCD, how is it connected? Did you try adjusting it by the monitor buttons?

-- marvin