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hey
i've got a Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller in my laptop and the trouble i'm having is when i install fc3 (or any other distro i've tried) i get the wrong resolution and i can t seem do do anything about it. the desktop is a lot bigger than the screen and i end up scrolling round the screen or focusing on the top corner. any ideas how to solve this?:confused:

Im guesing your using xorg. you may need to get ahold of who you bought the notebook from and get the horiz and vertical sync rates. and when you have that you may need to telinit 3 and then xorgsetup. I have a radeon and with the flgrx module it had me build my own xorg.conf file. everything worked perfect. hope it helps.

Ultimately you are going to have to rewrite the conf file for X. In the meantime adding a "screen=" command to your boot parameters may help.

Try (in order)
"screen=800x600"
"screen=1024x768"
"screen=1280x1024"
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes is a good reference

How you add these depends on your bootloader. I think lilo uses an "append" command; w/ GRUB, I believe you highlight the line for the kernel you want to use & press 'e' 2ce -- 1st to edit that stanza, 2nd to edit the line. Just add your "screen= " at the end, separated by a space. Then, I believe, <Enter> & 'b' (for boot); you can double check me @ http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...nu%20interface

Hope this helps, at the very least it may make you desktop more bearable while you do the necessary editing to X.