Dual Booted my Laptop but Linux is small
 

Hi All.. I just dual Booted my laptop with Redhat 9 and the screen is small. By small I mean it doesnt even take up the whole screen. A nice black rectangle is around my screen. I checked HP and they do now have any linux drivers of any kind. I have also checked ATI but they do not support laptops. Any ideas on how I can fix this would be appreciated. Thanks again

It sounds like you are in a lower than optimal resolution, you should be able to fix it by raising the resolution to what its supposed to be on your screen.

Nope, that is not the problem. It was even that way during the install

Disable the framebuffer at boot by changing lilo.conf to vga=normal

I had a similar problem with my Dell Inspiron 8000. I tried installing Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 and no matter what I did, disabling framebuffer, re-compiling the kernel endlessly tweaking the X config file, nothing worked. I could only ever get either 1024x768 in a tiny screen or 1600x1200 where everything was too tiny to see (on a 15" screen!!!). Nothing I could do would give me a decent resolution.

My solution was actually quite simple. I installed Mandrake 10, and out of the box, it worked perfectly, didn't have to tweak or re-compile anything and now I can choose resolutions anywhere between 800x600 and 1600x1200.... and they all operate full screen.

Red Hat and Fedora seem to have their laptop support broken because if Mandrake can do it, so can they, but they're not...