How to get full screen display?

[Vikas.Bhasin at britishairways.com]

Thanks for your reply, 

My laptop is Dell Inspiron 8500 and requires a resolution of 1680x1050 ( 
this is what i have under windowsXP) for get a full screen display. I also 
tried 1600x1200 resolution but it chops the top and bottom part of display 
as a result i'm not able to see the menu bar.

As of now, i've kept the resolution to 1400x1050, using this, i get full 
vertical display but horizontally, i get two black bands on either sides 
of screen. can i stretch this to 1680x1050?

Thanks
Vikas




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Vikas.Bhasin at britishairways.com wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I've recently installed Fedora on my Dell laptop which has got 15.4"
> screen. I tried all available resolutions but could not get proper
> display covering full screen Can anyone help me do the setting so as
> to get full 15.4" screen display?
>
> Also, when i shuts down the system, after exiting out of GUI mode it
> displays information of services shutting down in text mode. At this
> time, the text does not display properly and i frequently get vertical
> lines on the display. Can this be rectified ?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Vikas

Not sure if yours is the same as a friend of mine's Dell laptop, but her
screen is a 1600x1200 resolution screen..

My recomendation is that you increase your resolution a step at a time
until it fills the screen.. I am guessing that it probably defaulted to
1024x768, so move it up to 1280x1024 and see if it fills the screen, if
not go up another step..

Alternatively there is usually a "stretch" option in laptop BIOS's thet
will stretch the screen image to fill the screen, of course this usually
makes the image quality really crap..

Later..


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