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Subject: X Window display covers only a portion of the computer screen.
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>Number:         23129
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       X Window display covers only a portion of the computer screen.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 27 07:30:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Nov 27 07:36:47 PST 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Nov 27 07:50:02 PST 2000
>Originator:     Mark W. Brissette
>Release:        4.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
When I start the X Window System, the graphical display only covers part
of the screen on my laptop (an old Micron Millennia Transport). I've
tried both "800x600" and "640x480" for dimensions in /etc/XF86Config, but
I still can't get the X display to fill the entire screen. Using "1024x760"
hangs the system. My chipset is Cirrus7xxx. I'm not sure how to set the horiz.
and vert. sync numbers. I've played around with them a little bit, but the 
display size does not change, even though I have discovered how to make
a "virtual" console (where the entire area of the X display is not all 
shown on the screen at once. You have to move the mouse beyond the edge
of the display to get to the edges and the corners.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


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>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: des 
State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 27 07:36:47 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Not a FreeBSD bug. For assistance with XFree86, see http://www.xfree86.org/. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23129 

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: mark_brissette@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/23129: X Window display covers only a portion of the computer screen.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:36:39 +0200

 On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:29:04AM -0800, mark_brissette@yahoo.com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         23129
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       X Window display covers only a portion of the computer screen.
 > >Originator:     Mark W. Brissette
 > >Description:
 > When I start the X Window System, the graphical display only covers part
 > of the screen on my laptop (an old Micron Millennia Transport). I've
 > tried both "800x600" and "640x480" for dimensions in /etc/XF86Config, but
 > I still can't get the X display to fill the entire screen. Using "1024x760"
 > hangs the system. My chipset is Cirrus7xxx. I'm not sure how to set the horiz.
 > and vert. sync numbers. I've played around with them a little bit, but the 
 > display size does not change, even though I have discovered how to make
 > a "virtual" console (where the entire area of the X display is not all 
 > shown on the screen at once. You have to move the mouse beyond the edge
 > of the display to get to the edges and the corners.
 
 Laptops do not use CRT (a cathode-ray tube) to build up the screen image.
 They use a fixed matrix of pixels.  Thus, the horizontal and vertical
 refresh frequencies do not in any way apply - you cannot stretch or shrink
 a physical element of the TFT matrix :)
 
 Unfortunately, this means that you're stuck with 800x600, just as I am
 on my Asus (don't have the model handy right now) :(
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
 -- 
 This inert sentence is my body, but my soul is alive, dancing in the sparks of your brain.
 
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