install linux help!
 

i am trying to install fedora 7 on my Dell Inspirion 1100. After install the operating system, the resolution of the screen is reduce to 75%. Does any one know how to fix it? Thanks!

Fedora 7 is outdated, Fedora 10 was just released today. You'd probably be better off getting that and installing it, it may have better support for your hardware.

You might also want to try this link which gives a lot of information for installing Linux on that very laptop, including what software packages / distributions people have had success with.

Fedora 7 is nowhere near as outdated as that 1100 - going to 10 will probably be no better. For example installing latest Ubuntu (8.10) was much more of a problem than previous.
It's the stupid video memory allocation that Dell used - used to need the 855resolution fix to run X at all. That was rolled into the "i810" and now (I think) the "Intel" driver. I'll post back later with the relevant xorg bits I use.

As an aside, just yesterday I tried zenwalk on mine - it's lighter (uses XFCE as a DM) and seemed like a good fit. Couldn't get X operational at all. Didn't try for long though. The liveCD works o.k. so I might re-try that and see what it uses for xorg.conf.

Double post again! Something's going screwy on my end, sorry

Not much of interest - they all either use the i810 or Intel driver; no HorizSync or VertRefresh specified. Seems the default is good enough ...
The problems I had with Intrepid were with the install - needed to come up in a degraded video mode.

Check you have the "latest" BIOS level -A32.

here is another thread you might want to look at.

Later: Ignore the zenwalk comment - re-install went o.k. Occasionally have to kick X into action with <alt>-<ctrl>-<bksp> when it stalls on a blank screen on startup.