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. 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.

No joy, David:

sudo aptitude install read-edid
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/tmp
sudo aptitude reinstall xserver-common xserver-xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

No modelines in xorg.conf.

So I'll be filing the bug report with the files you requested.

Thanks again
Paulo