[ale] blue border, X, and Compaq Armada laptop

[Christopher R. Curzio]

John,

I'm not going to try to assist in configuring your display to work with X,
as I don't feel like being responsible for frying your laptop. ;)

In any case, you can (probably) get rid of that ugly blue border while
you're working in 640x480 on your Compaq laptop by hitting the FN+T keys.
This expands 640x480 to full screen. At least, it did on my former laptop,
a Compaq Armada 4131T. (I don't have it anymore, as it was
faeces-in-a-box. And so is the company.)

-- 
Christopher R. Curzio
http://www.accipiter.org
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Thus Spake "John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com>:
Tue, 28 May 2002 17:19:05 -0500 (EST)


> Tyler,
> 
> Thanks.  I don't think it's necessarily a XF86Config problem (fwiw, I
> have resolution set to 800x600).  Rather, it's something specific to
> Compaq laptops and their screwed up software bios thingy.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
>  Tyler Kiley said:
> > The display resolution setting for X is in XF86Config, which is
> > typically in  /etc/X11 (or something like that).  Do a text search for
> > "640x480" and you'll  know what to do :-)
> >
> > Tyler
> >
> > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 05:20 pm, John Wells wrote:
> >> I have a Compaq Armada 1550DMT laptop that I've wiped of RH and
> >> installed Debian on.  Now when I start X I get a 640x480 screen
> >> centered on the monitor with a big blue ugly 1 1/2" border around the
> >> edge.
> >>
> >> I had another compaq laptop with this same problem, and I solved it
> >> somehow, but it was over a year ago and for the life of me I can't
> >> remember.
> >>
> >> Can anyone provide the answer?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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