Display problem of fedora 7 on IBM A21p thinkpad

[Kam Leo]

On 6/1/07, frank wang <yixiaodafang at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have finally installed the fedora with live cd. However, after I
> select the vesa driver, my display is very small, about 8 inch. How
> can I fix this problem? My display is 15 inch.
>
> I really need experts help to fix this problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
>
> On 6/1/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> > frank wang wrote:
> > > I am a new user on the linux. Could you tell me how to select the vesa
> > > driver in fedora? I thought I have tried it in ubuntu 7.0.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Frank
> >
> > linux xdriver=vesa
> >
> > This feature changed so that you can specify which driver you want to
> > use from the many available. If you know of a driver that worked for you
> > in the past, you could enter that driver instead of the vesa driver.
> >
> > Note, your xorg.conf file will contain whatever you select.
> >
> > Another possibility for failure for the video is the setting for video
> > memory is too low in BIOS. You might up the video memory for shared
> > memory to see if it does you any good.
> >
> > Jim
> >

You need to specify a monitor and a display resolution. Have you done that?