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I tried to install Mandrake 10.0 on a friend's machine. He has a Pentium 4 with 1gig DDR memory and an ATI Radeon 9800 video card. No matter what kernel or ATI driver I use, the desktop is twice the size of the monitor so that you have to pan with the mouse to see the whole desktop. Has anyone seen this behavior, and if so, how did you fix it?
Thanks, I knew it had something to do with the X config file. I tried changing screen resolutions and meta modes. I didn't think of looking for "virtual".
Im Having the same problem (I posted another thread in the mandrake Area, it was only on further searching i got this thread, sorry) , i can find the file, but it doesnt read exactly as you post, and "Virual blah x blah" appears a few times, not to sure if i should go ahead and change them or not
Copy the XF86config-4 file to XF86config-4.bak. Make changes to the appropriate lines. If it doesn't work you can just copy the backup file over the original file.
My ultimate solution was to install Suse. I have now swithced to Suse. It's really nice.
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