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Old 10-25-2004, 02:36 PM   #1
AmdMhz
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Question Laptop Video Question


Hi all... I just put slackware 10 on my main system at home and really like it. Finally I am learning something instead of letting Suse 9.1 do everything for me. Anyway, I want to put Slackware on my laptop as a Dual Boot. I have not problem dual booting. I main question/Problem is this.

When I put the install cd in my laptop and booted it. The install screen did not take up the whole screen. I could still install it if I wanted but I wanted to know, after the install with the whole screen finally be used? or will I have a small rectanglur box in the center of my screen. Hmmm I hope that is not confusing anyone, it is hard to explain.

Anyway, When I installed Red hat 9.0 on my Laptop, After I completely had it up and running, it never took up my whole laptop screen... No matter what I tried, it always booted up in a smaller rectangle box in the center of my screen. I could never figure it out. So, I switched to Suse 9.1 and it installed on the Whole Screen. I never had a problem.

So I was wondering, has anyone else ever had this problem? If so how did you fix it. I really want to use slackware instead of Suse on my laptop.

Thanks for your help

Amdmhz
 
Old 10-25-2004, 04:15 PM   #2
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You'll be alright ... the "problem" you have has two
aspects: 1) many machines offer a "stretch" for old
graphics (text-mode) resolution that happens in BIOS,
if you enable this feature you'll get a big lilo-prompt,
too. 2) if the first 15 seconds don't bother you leave
the BIOS alone, and just tell lilo to use the framebuffer
with a suitable resolution for the screen (e.g. 1024x768x
32K) and you'll be all good.


Cheers,
Tink
 
Old 10-25-2004, 05:47 PM   #3
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I like Tinkster's option 2. That's the method I used; plus, tux appears in the upper-lefthand corner of the screen during boot, and remains there while working in console-mode.
 
  


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