[CLUE-Tech] xquestion

[Keith Hellman]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:49:17PM -0000, mikeegee at postey.com wrote:
> Hello.  I am somewhat new to Linux, having dabbled in it a little 
> before, so perhaps someone can provide me with a little assistance.  
> I recently installed SuSE 8.1 on my Compaq Armada M700 laptop.
> 
> The installation went well, and I am able to boot into the graphical 
> interface, however there is a half inch white band extending across 
> my screen about one inch from the top.  Also, the pointer needs to be 
> around 1.5 inches below anything I want to click on.
> 
> I booted into safe mode and toyed around with the XG86Config file, 
> and am able to boot safe, login, then xinit with no problem.  The 
> screen works perfectly and displays at 1024x768.
> 
> How can I get the regular boot to work properly?  Can I use the same 
> XF86Config file I am using in safe mode?  How would I go about this?
> 
In SuSE you can run sax2 to do all your X configuration.  Yes, you can
just copy the XF86Config from safe mode over the other one, but I would
run sax2 and see if twiddling with the configuration that-a-way helps.

I would suspect that the safe mode settings are not nearly optimal for
your hardware...


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