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Slackware 9.x on Dell Latitude CPi A 266mhz

Hi,
can anyone give me some advice regarding video modes for X Windows on this series of Dell Laptops. It would appear these machines have a 2mb Neomagic video chip. Straight off my X windows is working in 24 bit which is great (believe res is 1024x768 - any tools to verify this?>) using the 'vesa?' driver.

The problem is that the actual screen still has a large black border around the side, it its not using the whole screen. I've tried the various Xconfig programs to adjust it but without much success. Does anyone have a Dell with a similar videochip using the whole screen and running at a reasonable resolution...

thanks

bob.

2mb is a little slim for X, but let's give it a try ;)

Ok, in the Screens section of your XF86Config file, please post up what you've got, the entire section please. Basically, you want something that looks like this:

Code:

# Screen sections

# **********************************************************************



# Any number of screen sections may be present.  Each describes

# the configuration of a single screen.  A single specific screen section

# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"

# option.

Section "Screen"

    Identifier  "Screen 1"

    Device      "NVidia GeForce 4 MMX-SE/TV"

#    Device      "ATI Rage Fury Pro"

    Monitor    "Hansol 910A"

#    Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"



    DefaultDepth 24



    Subsection "Display"

        Depth      24

        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "1280x1024"

        ViewPort    0 0

    EndSubsection

WHere "modes" has your desired res listed first. :)

Cool

Hi can you please direct me as to where i can find this file to edit?

Thanks

TOm