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Thread: Knoppix will not run in full screen? Dell laptop

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    Knoppix will not run in full screen? Dell laptop

    im only using about 50% of the screen on my laptop. there is a black border all the way around the screen. iv looked around on this board and didnt find a fix. can anyone help?

    it has been this was for 3.2 and 3.3

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    i have also tried the cheat code for 1024x768. no help

    also using a dell inspron 8000 with a ge force 2go card

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    It may be a problem with the video driver. Did you try specifying xmodule=vesa as a cheat code? If you know what video card the laptop has, you could try the correct module, like xmodule=ati, etc.

    I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with ATI rage mobility M4. During bootup, X server fails to start and Knoppix automatically falls back to the vesa driver and that works. Good luck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by m_yates
    It may be a problem with the video driver. Did you try specifying xmodule=vesa as a cheat code? If you know what video card the laptop has, you could try the correct module, like xmodule=ati, etc.

    I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with ATI rage mobility M4. During bootup, X server fails to start and Knoppix automatically falls back to the vesa driver and that works. Good luck.
    ok i tried: xmodule=vesa and xmodule=nvidia. neither works. got not found errors.

    any other ideas? im lost here lol

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    hey i dunno if this'll help but i heard you can fix it by changing the video buffer (default 1mB) in bios to 8mb. dunno if it works though.

    reply if it is successful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by a_passerby
    hey i dunno if this'll help but i heard you can fix it by changing the video buffer (default 1mB) in bios to 8mb. dunno if it works though.

    reply if it is successful.
    im not sure how that will help but ill check it out when i get home

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    probably wont work as you wont have access to those kinds of settings in notebook bios.

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    yeah u right. i tried changing but couldn't.

    i got it from ->

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=dell+screen

    if you wanna check it out.

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    hmm. still having this problem and still cant find an answer! lol

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    You did not mention you tried the most prominent fix:
    Start with knoppix vsync=60
    It works on my Toshiba Satellite.

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