 | | | Nvidia GeForce4 card in a Dell laptop - Fixed | Nvidia GeForce4 card in a Dell laptop - Fixed 2003-04-23 - By Margaret_Doll
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Some of our students found the answer on www.linux-laptop.net under the
second entry for Dell Latitude C840. The answer followed in the vein
of the
answers that I was getting from this news list. So thanks to all of
you.
/etc/X11/XF86Config was modified to add/change the following lines
Under the Monitor Section
ModelName "Dell 1600X Laptop Display Panel "
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.0 - 85.0
ModeLine "1400x1050 " 129.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100
+hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050 " 151.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100
+hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050 " 162.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100
+hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050 " 184.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100
+hsync +vsync
Under the Screen Section
SubSection "Display "
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200 " "1400x1050 " "1280x1024 " "1280x960 "
"1152x86
4 " "1024x768 " "800x600 " "640x480 "
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll@(protected) >
> Date: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:09:47 PM US/Eastern
> To: shrike-list@(protected)
> Subject: Fwd: Nvidia GeForce4 card in a Dell laptop
>
> I have added the ModeLines to XF86Config as per Elliot 's instructions.
> System Settings - > Display says 1400x1050 and a million colors whether
> the display is taking up the complete screen or whether it is in its
> small form.
> We were using "Monitor Model " as the monitor type; we tried "generic
> laptop " as per Stephan 's suggestions.
>
> I did not download any special drivers for the NVIDIA video card. We
> relied on the drivers in RH 9.0. There was no /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA*
> directories on this laptop. I didn 't see how the errata on
>
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4349/errata-1.0-
> 4349.txt
> pertained to this particular installation. Though thanks, Shawn
>
> The system still comes up with a little display screen that one can
> enlarge
> by using "fn-f7 ".
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll@(protected) >
> > Date: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:12:11 PM US/Eastern
> > To: shrike-list@(protected)
> > Subject: Re: Nvidia GeForce4 card in a Dell laptop
> >
> > Thanks everyone for your input. We are still unable to get the
> > login screen to fill up the entire physical monitor. However
> > once we login in and hit "fn " and "f7 " together, the screen enlarges
> > to fill up the complete physical monitor. Does that help isolate
> > the problem. The monitor is unknown; the Dell laptop is a "latitude. "
> >
> >
> > Original question:
> >
> > We just installed RH 9.0 on a dell laptop with a Nvidia GeForce4
> > video card. We took the suggestions for video from the installation
> > program. We ended up with a system whose window just takes up
> > the middle third of the available screen. All the terminal windows
> > that open up take up the entire system window. Nothing is created
> > in the black two thirds of the screen surrounding the system window.
> >
> > How do we extend the system window to take up the entire available
> > screen?
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Tom Coady wrote:
> >
> > > Tom Coady wrote:
> > > > CTL-ALT-F1
> > > > login as root and run
> > > > redhat-config-xfree86 --set-resolution=1600x1200
> > >
> > > Forgot to mention CTL-ALT-F7 to get back to X and CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE
> > > to
> > > restart X
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shrike-list mailing list
> > > Shrike-list@(protected)
> > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
> > >
> >
>
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