Re: X on Dell Inspiron 8500 is scaled to middle of screen

Bruce Cran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:05:52PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Using XFree86 4.3.0 from packages under 5.2 (i386).
> XFree86 -configure created a config that worked
> but the viewed display is only a small rectangle
> in the middle of larger screen.
> 
> This is a Dell Inspiron 8500.
> XFree86 detected it as a "nv".
> The card is a Nvidia GeForce 4 4200.
> 
> Also tried the ports/x11/nvidia-driver
> (built with -DWITHOUT_LINUX).
> But that said something about couldn't load
> kernel driver. Although the kldload nvidia
> worked fine.
> 
> I found examples of XF86Config files for this
> in this list, but didn't help.
> 
> The BIOS setting is set for LCD "expansion"
> when changed then it shows the same small
> display.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get XFree86 with "nv"
> (or other) to use the full screen?
>

If you use the nvidia driver from x11/nvidia-driver, there are parameters
you can set in the video driver section of XF86Config.   Read 
/usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA/README.Linux for all the parameters, but
the one you want to set is 'Scaling'.

--
Bruce Cran 
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