X doesn't fill the whole screen

[Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao]

David Nusinow wrote on Dec, 19:
> > I've been living with 800x600 for almost a year, and a partial-screen 
> > 1024x768 for only one day, thanks to you. Strangely, Knoppix 
> > auto-detection scripts created the correct modelines, but Debian didn't. 
> > Would it be the case of filing a bug against the X server package in 
> > Debian ?

> Also, the current debian packages use the read-edid package to check for
> the monitor's modelines, but they don't require this package to be
> installed. So unless you had it installed, the package would use a
> pre-defined set of modelines.

Indeed, I don't have read-edid installed. I'll install it, put away my current  
xorg.conf and run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, to see what it comes up with 
it.

> This is a known issue, and the
> debian-installer works around it if you install the desktop task, but I
> don't plan to fix it until well after etch ships.

Why isn't xserver-xorg configured to depend on read-edid ?

Thanks for bringing light to this issue, David.
Paulo