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Screen issues and Framebuffer help
Hey guys, I am running an old Toshiba Tecra 730XCDT, Pentium MMX~150Mhz 80Mb of RAM. If I boot knoppix with "knoppix fb1280x1024 desktop=fluxbox lang=us" the machine boot and runs perfect and X looks perfect and runs great BUT, If I try to load my SuSE9.0 full distro or a MANDRAKE full distro, (basically anything that doesn't allow me to specify framebuffer at boot time) when X starts, the screen looks really bad, the fonts are almost unreadable, and the screen is moved up into the top left corner so that there is about a half an inch of black space down the right side and bottom of the screen. When I was in SAX with SuSE, I tried to use any reasonable LCD mode that they offered and under the toshiba section, there was nothing for a laptop at all. How do you use framebuffer all of the time on a full install of linux? I have never used Linux on a laptop in the 8 years that I have been playing with it so this is all new to me. Is framebuffer even what i want to use all of the time? Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks.../peter
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