I have recently installed CentOS 5.1 on a HP 6510b laptop using an Intel 965 Express display adapter. When I finshed the install and restarted, GDM/Gnome comes up but the display does not utilize all of the screen real estate that is available. I tried changing this so that it would display correctly using the GUI interface tools that CentOS/gdm provides. This applet did allowed me to change the display resolution, but it failed to enlarge the display settings so that it would fill the screen the way it is supposed to. Consequently I have a laptop display that has a thick black border encircling it.

I had the same problem when I was using Fedora Core 6 on this same device with a 2.4 kernel. Now that I'm using CentOS 5 with a 2.6.18 kernel I find myself wondering if it's not something more basic that needs to be reconfigured. I even downloaded the latest kernel but this didn't change anything.

Is there a setting in xorg.conf I should be using to adjust this so that all of the viewable are is used?

Has anyone else run into this problem with this model?

Use the 915-resolution package from Dag's site (rpmforge): http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories

Also see: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Graphics_Cards


That is impossible, Fedora Core 6 was released with a 2.6 kernel and does not have support for a 2.4 kernel available by the installed packaging.

Ok, I stand corrected. I should have stuck to what was relevant or at least been certain of all my facts before placing them in this post. The truth of the matter is, I did not go to the trouble to write down or check the Fedora Core 6 build before setting up CentOS5. I also have another, substantially older version of CentOS (3) installed on a desktop box that is running as a server and is running under kernel 2.4.21-52. I guess I must have confused what was gone with what is still hanging around. Sorry about that. Hope it didn't slow down the reply.

Regarding the 915reolution: I was able to install this package from Dag's repository as you indicated, and there were no problems with the install. But when I ran 915resolution -l as you recommended, this is what I got:

Intel chipset detected. However, 915resolution was unable to determine the chipset type.
Chipset Id: 2a008086
Please report this problem to stomljen@yahoo.com

Thanks for the recommendation. If you have any other suggestions, I would be interested to hear them.

OK, as a suggestion use the GUI graphics and choose the Generic monitor type that matches your monitor's native resolution setting and the matching resolution desired.

Second suggestion as root from runlevel3 type something like:

system-config-display --reconfig --set-resolution=1024x768 --set-depth=16 --set-driver=i810

See: system-config-display --help for more configuration options. Adjust the resolution to match your monitors native resolution.

I tried the first suggestion. While the command was accepted, no change resulted when I restarted X(so I guess setting to a lower level driver didn't help?).

I'll look more closely at the help options and post what I find if a solution is found.