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Just loaded Red Hat 8.0 on my other machine. If I log on as a normal user all is fine with screen size. However when logging on as root only the lower right corner of the screen is used. the other 3/4 is the blue linux background. Can this be adjusted and how? thanks in advance for the help...jkp...
Distribution: Slackware, (Non-Linux: Solaris 7,8,9; OSX; BeOS)
Posts: 1,152
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We need more info. What WM are you using? Is the resolution just
very low, so everything looks really big? I don't actually know what
you are seeing. . .
Moses, I have a Mitac 1564 set in the gui interface at 1024x768
that answers the WM question if that stands for windows monitor.
What i see on a user log on in a normal screen. When logged on as root the screen is also normal however it is in the lower right quadrant of the screen i.e. 1/4 size. the other 3/4s of the screen contain the blue linux background. the text is readable and normal looking but small as you can imagine.(old eyes you know)
Looks like this:
_________________
|****************|
|*******No*******|
| ******** _______|
| ********| 111111 |
| *Data ** |1 data 1|
|*********|1111111|
does this help
Distribution: Slackware, (Non-Linux: Solaris 7,8,9; OSX; BeOS)
Posts: 1,152
Rep:
Post the contents of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file (it will have
XF86Config in the filename, there may be more crap after that),
without the comments (lines that start with "#").
Distribution: Slackware, (Non-Linux: Solaris 7,8,9; OSX; BeOS)
Posts: 1,152
Rep:
hmm. . .
Can you do the following:
exit the X server (completely, including any login manager like gdm or kdm)
remove /var/log/XFree86.0.log
log in as root
startx
exit the WM
post the output of /var/log/XFree86.0.log
(it may be a long file, if so, just post any lines that are errors or warnings,
and the last 10 lines or so of the file)
Moses at this piont it 's repaired. Since I had just install rh8
I tried a reinstall and that cured the problem thanks for the help.
I learned along the way and got a lot more to learn.
best ...jp...
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screen to small as root user
