How to get full screen display?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 06.02.2004 schrieb Vikas.Bhasin at britishairways.com um 10:13:
> 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

Did you edit the /etc/X11/XF86config for setting the desired resolution?
You may have to use a modeline. See the /var/log/XFree86.0.log for
details.

Alexander


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