[NTLUG:Discuss] Graphical desktop in SUSE 7.0

[Randall Gibson]

This may sound silly, but can you re-size the display with the monitors
controlls?? If  not, You may want to try xvidtune. I do not know if it
comes with suse, but it will help you get the right lines to put in the
config file. Last, but not least, try sax2. I think that is in suse7.0 and
it will convert your XF86 over to version 4. Note, no xvidtune for version
4 AFAIK.
	Randall Gibson

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:49:37 Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Hey y'all,
> 
> OK, so we decided to put Linux (dual boot now) on my fiance's computer,
> and because she claims to not "know anything about this computer crap", I
> thought maybe we should use something that's got some more GUI stuff and
> stuff, so I put SUSE 7.0 evaluation version on her machine. It seems to
> have installed without a hitch...well, we won't go into the SoundBlaster
> PCI128, which the provided ALSA drivers won't seem to find. But I mean
> besides that. It went pretty well. We actually got X set up with sax, and
> that even works. Now here's the issue we're running into:
> 
> At the top and bottom of her screen is a black area, which means that her
> desktop and any application windows don't fill the entire screen, and we
> think some stuff might be cut off of the display, and we can't figure out
> how to make the desktop use the whole screen. Anyone got any clues? (I'm
> blind and use all the text-based console stuff and am absolutely useless
> in X. For now, anyway...we'll see what happens next month...supposed to
> be
> an X screen reader for free personal use coming out...)
> 
> The particulars:
> 
> P133, 48MB RAM, the system is split close to halfway between Windows and
> Linux (about 3GB each). Monitor is a 15-inch NEC monitor, specifically
> the
> Multisync C500. The video card is a ATI Xpert98 (or Xpert at play, or
> something) PCI with 8MB of video memory. The only sticky point during the
> X setup was the monitor: there was no entry for the Multisync C500, but
> the A500 was pretty close in specifications, apparently, so we chose that
> monitor type.
> 
> Any help with this video problem would be appreciated. (Well, OK, not a
> video problem, but more a config problem...)
> 
> Looks like we're using KDE, as well, for what it's worth.
> 
> Oh, and if anyone has some info on the sound config...but we can rassle
> with that any time, I suppose.
> 
> 
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