Hello. I want to install kubuntu feisty in a brand new sony vaio vgn-fz19vn. I load the liveCD and I get a very small desktop size. The resolution seems to be the correct one but the whole desktop seems like a 640x480 window. I tried to use the the xvidtune tool but it says that the video mode can not be changed on this chip. The graphics card is a mobile intel graphics media accelator X3100. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Re: Very small desktop size
i haven't got a vaio, though on my laptop there's this bios switch
you can use to say how is the monitor to be driven when the non
native resolution is used.
my monitor is 1680x1050, but if i drive it at, say, 1024x768, only
that actual screen portion will be used, leaving a black frame around it.
basically, the image will not be scaled.
and i can change this bios setting to have the image be scaled to the
monitor's full size, no matter what the resolution i use.
this is valid for grub's boot menu and for kubuntu's boot splash.
when the X server starts up, this setting is bypassed.
can be of much more help, i'm sorry...
cheers
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Re: Very small desktop size
Thank you very much for your reply. I was not able to find the bios switch you were referring to but I fixed the problem using
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
and adjusting the settings there.
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Re: Very small desktop size
good.
well done.
i totally misunderstood your issue.
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