That looks to me as if the GUI (KDE in this case) starts up with the lowest resolution, say 640x480 - does cycling through screen resolutions (with [CTRL]-[ALT]-[+]) give you any other/larger screen dimension ? (The pop-up windows should be significantly smaller then, and be situated all inside the visible window on the screen.)
If not, it could be a matter of the very X server configuration. Try to re-configure X - take care to start with the lowest colour depth/range (8 bit, 256 colours) in order to get the largest possible band of resolutions accepted; it's easier to do that in the Mandrake setup (or with Xconfigurator if it's there) than with tinkering with the configuration files directly. The Mandrake X-install routine is in fact quite good, gives immediate feedback (with the "Test now" step), allowing to variate each value entered immediately and to try out if it works. (It's a drag with Debian, where you get the [typically wrong] result only after the whole installation procedure and after starting X; or rather, after failing to get somewhere then. And in addition, there are real nuisances built-in there: the value to enter for video RAM _must_ be given wrong in order to get a right result; or, the [screen] "modules" default would most certainly result in failure, while there's not the least meaningful indication which choices would be appropriate. Sheer horror this, can make you waste days on end without getting the specific combo of card/monitor to work ever in its best way. The Mdk procedure is way ahead.) // Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2003-03-08 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
