dell inspiron 1100 display problems
 

Hi,

I've just installed ubuntu on my mum's dell inspiron 1100 and Xorg just displays at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 in the middle of the screen. I have upgraded to the A32 BIOS which I thought would fix the problem, knoppix now displays using the whole screen, but even after reinstalling ubuntu it still just displays in a small area in the middle.

Any ideas on how to fix it? (apart from installing gentoo)

Thanks
- Jessica

Re: dell inspiron 1100 display problems
 

Well, the quick-and-easy way (relatively) would be to boot up Knoppix again, and then look at the X config file it creates (it will be at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4). The important bits will be towards the bottom -- in the Display section, look for the driver (it might be 'radeon' or 'vesa'), and also the Screen resolution section below that. Now just edit your /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file so that it uses the same resolutions and screen drivers.

Note that you can actually edit your Ubuntu Xorg while running Knoppix -- just open up the file (after mounting the hard drive read/write -- the default is read only).

Cheers,

mj

Sweet! Thanks a bunch mjrich!

I copied the following lines:
from my knoppix /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 into my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and thereby fixed the problem.

Thanks again! :-)
- Jessica

No worries :)

Great to hear it worked !

Cheers,

mj

Add those lines to the Monitor section.