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djspitfire
06-17-2001, 02:57 PM
A clean install of Mandrake 8.0 went fine, only my display is shrunk to about half the height of my screen. I've played around with my xf86config, but haven't gotten anywhere. Can anyone help?

The card is a Radeon LE 32MB.

I also tried updating to X 4.10, but I can't get that to configure, I'm still workin on that though.
witman
06-17-2001, 10:03 PM
There is a file called /etc/X11/XF86Config . In this file, your desktop is described. There is a section at the bottom with the following type of entry:

# The accel server
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "RIVA TNT2"
Monitor "Relisys RE551"
DefaultColorDepth 32

Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1152x864"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection


My guess is that it's the viewport that is wrong. It seems like your virtual desktop is set to a size smaller than your actual screen size. Change it to 00 so you'll have no virtual desktop.

If this is not the case, post back so we can have a further look.

Also, you should try to use Xconfigurator. It's a dream.

[ 17 June 2001: Message edited by: witman ]
Xsecrets
06-17-2001, 10:54 PM
If I'm not mistaken mandrake 8.0 uses one of the X 4.x versions and I don't believe that Xconfigurator works with them. At least not the last time I checked but they may have updated it by now.
djspitfire
06-18-2001, 11:00 AM
Thanks for the ideas, I'm at work right now but I'll check it as soon as I'm out. I've played around with the XF86Config a lot and got nowhere, but viewport was always one of those things, I didn't know what it did so I just kinda left it alone. So I will definately check that out. Thanks!
djspitfire
06-18-2001, 07:39 PM
Tried it out, all the view ports were set to 00 already. I also tried even to use the XF86Config file I had from Caldera 2.4 with X 4.0, which worked fine, and I still got the same squashed screen effect. I can post up my XF86Config file if anyone's interested.
bdg1983
06-19-2001, 08:09 AM
Sure we'll have a look at it.
ronmon
06-20-2001, 01:12 PM
I've got a Radeon DDR that configured without problems in a similar setup. My guess would be that your montitor's refresh rates are not correctly set. The file you want to look at is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 if you are running XF86 4.x.