<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I had the same issue with my laptop, (1680x1050) Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf Go down to the Modes "1024x768" 800x600" ... change it to Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" etc then save and hit CTRL-ALT-BKSPACE to restart x That should work great, (it's possible you will also have to set the horrizontal/vertical freq too - it's in the same config file Mine says "HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0" "VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0" then Go into GIMP and create a new document the dot size of your screen (1280x800) and view it at 1:1. It should be the size of your screen - (It's a good test) -Mickey -Linux MASTER wannabe - but I'm currently just scratchin' the surface! Martin Biggs wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200407051712.31204.fedora-list@kasamhor.co.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 16:46, Timothy Murphy wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Martin Biggs wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, I am hoping one of you can help me. I have a eMachines M5116 laptop with a screen resolution of 1280x800; but I can only get it to work at 1024x768. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I don't know much about this subject, but you have the Depth set to 24 for this resolution. You could try setting it to 16 (and also DefaultColorDepth). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thankyou for your sugestion, I didhave doubts as to if it would make any difference as it is known to work under Mandrake. I did try it though with no change in effect. Thanks anyway. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>