Well I have never used Gentoo. I just want to make sure if I
understood her problem, so using the console (text mode, not an
xterm), does it fill the entire screen? If it doesn't, than the
problem might be solved by simply passing vga=791 (or 794) to kernel
using grub.
I suppose this is not the case, though. Maybe it's the font size?
How does xorg.conf look like? Can you show it to me?
-Rafael
On 4/13/07, Ian! D. Allen <idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca> wrote:
A friend running Gentoo upgraded monitors from 15" to 17":
Alex set up my machine in Linux and all was fine until [someone else]
tried to make my life better by replacing my perfectly good 15 inch
monitor with a 17 inch one. Now everything is so tiny I can't read
it and most of the screen is blank. No one seems to know how to
fix this. Is there an easy way to make things bigger?
This is Gentoo. Any help would be appreciated. Strangely enough,
when the computer boots up the print is fine but once you go into
e-mail (thunderbird) or internet (firefox) everything gets small.
I've never used Gentoo (and I don't use Gnome or KDE). What can I tell her?
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