Toshiba Notebook Display too small

**Kamakize** · 12-01-2003, 05:57 PM

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** · 12-01-2003, 07:13 PM

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** · 12-01-2003, 10:12 PM

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.