Re: [SLUG] NEED a HAND - GUI problems

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ben Donohue wrote:

I missed the original, but....

> > After some gliches I have finally got it running with GNOME interface but
> > have a little problem.....quite literally.
> >
> > everything on the desktop, including the mouse cursor is 1/4 size!!!!! And
> > the 'screen' does not fit my monitor screen, its got a black stripe down
> > the left side and cannot be adjust to correct size/shape/position with
> > monitor controls.

This sounds like a classic case of misconfigured scan rates in XF86Config.

Check your monitor's configuration _carefully_. Make sure you have both
the vertical and horizontal scan rates configured correctly.

It shounds like you're running the monitor at a scan rate which is _way_
too high for it to deal with - the monitor responds by dropping other
frequencies to compensate, resulting in a smaller screen.

This can actually damage your monitor - so boot to _text_ mode if you can
{if you set up to boot to X automatically, boot it up long enough to
change /etc/inittab and change the default run level to 3, not 5}, or when
lilo comes up type linux single instead of just letting it boot to get to
single user mode and do the same.

Then you can fiddle with your XF86Config and make changes until it works.

DaZZa

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