Toshiba Notebook Display too small

[Kamakize]

I ran Koppix from the CD on my Tosibia 650mhz Celaron and the windows are small, and xchat, for example is small and centered in the middle of the screen, I can not make it any bigger...

any suggestions?

[abouzeis]

Hi, I run into the same thing everytime I run knoppix from cd, to solve this problem you have to get knoppix to use vesa as its video mode. I'm not sure how to do that, search the site. But since I have knoppix installed on my hd, vesa mode takes up the whole screen. It would be nice if 1440x900 video res. was supported as my monitor is 17inch wide screen on a toshiba laptop.

[garyng]

talking about vesa, I learnt a nice little trick from spblinux's author. One can use mplayer to query what vesa mode is supported by the display chip by :

mplayer -v some_video_file > log

the log would contain all the available one for the vga= parameter. Though it is listed in hex and somehow 512(decimal) is needed to be added to the value to come out the proper vga= value.

So one can always boot with vga=normal and fine out what vesa modes is there then later fix that in the boot configure in LILO/GRUB for future use, should vesa is needed.

[Kamakize]

Ah ok..
Though I still do not know how to run Versa.

What command do I need to run at the "boot" command to get it to get it to work?

[Stephen]

Ah ok..
Though I still do not know how to run Versa.

What command do I need to run at the "boot" command to get it to get it to work?

Try using the frame buffer when you boot with fb1024x768 at the prompt.

[Kamakize]

How the heck do I do this?

SOmeone giove me what I should do at boot.

Thanks!

[abouzeis]

Press f2 at boot prompt and look at the knoppix cheats on top

[Kamakize]

Still No luck. I have tried to do screen= , i tired expert, tried dont detect monitor.. still disaplays just in the center of the screen...

[baldyeti]

try "knoppix xserver=XFree86 xmodule=fbdev fb1024x768"

[Stephen]

try "knoppix xserver=XFree86 xmodule=fbdev fb1024x768"

The knoppix at the start is not needed the fb1024x768 is a kernel image just like the knoppix the correct line would be:

fb1024x768 cheat_code cheat_code .....