How to get full screen display?

[Troy Campano]

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 at britishairways.com 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
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