Re: How to get full screen display?

I too have the Inspiron 8500 running Fedora Core 1.
Really the "ideal" screen resolution for this laptop is 1920x1200,
though for some people that's too small. Though I love it.

What I did was install the latest nvidia driver and reconfigured my
XF86Config file. Not sure if you need to install the nvidia driver, but
it does make it look better.

Once I did that I downloaded an example XF86Config file from someone
else running the 8500. Then rebooted and it back to the beautiful
1920x1200.

I've attached my XF86Config file.

Installing the NVIDIA driver was little tricky (had to reboot to init
level 3 with no X to install), but i'd be more than happy to help you
out. I spent a week, every night, trying to get it working until I found
the right combination of changes that needed to be made.

Please let me know if I can help.


thanks!

~ Troy Campano ~



On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 03:53, Vikas.Bhasin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the 
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
#	Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#	Option	"XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
# or:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
#	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:nocaps"
#
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xfree86"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "PS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
	Identifier  "DevInputMice"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "PS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	#Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Unprobed Monitor"
	DisplaySize  330	210
	HorizSync    31.5 - 100.0
	VertRefresh  30.0 - 90.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

	#Driver      "nv"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
	VideoRam    65536
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"

		#Modes    "1920x1200" "800x600"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1920x1200" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"

		#Modes    "1920x1200" "800x600"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1920x1200" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection