X doesn't fill the whole screen

Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao marcelpaulo+l at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 09:45:46 PST 2005


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 ?

> If you can supply the correct modeline in such a bug report, I'd very much
> appreciate it. The server config script is going largely untouched right
> now, but any little help it can get to keep it alive would be very helpful.

I'll try your read-edid suggestion first. Failing that, I'll file the report 
and include the Knoppix-generated XF86Config-4 and Xorg.0.log.

Thanks for looking into this
Paulo



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