On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 09:49, Peter Spotts wrote: > Folks, > > I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 > on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or > Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four > to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop > set up as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on the other side of the > no-byte zone. The problem doesn't exist on that side of the divide. I > also made sure I selected the appropriate driver when I installed MDK8.1 > (ATI Radeon). Any thoughts as to how I can get an exact fit of desktop > to screen? > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Peter N. Spotts > Science and technology correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor > One Norway Street, Boston, MA USA 02115 > Office: 1-617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 1-508-520-3139 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.csmonitor.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ...ok...you're going to need a flathead screwdriver, small crowbar, 32oz ballpeen hammer, 8oz of Mazola, 1 roll of duct tape....OH WAIT, that's for my wife...sorry...
Isn't there a means by which you can do a screen adjustment on the Toshiba? If I recall, there was a utility Toshiba threw on their laptops that did basically that...albeit a pain to do when booting back and forth between OS's...can't quite remember the name of it though... -- Sun Nov 17 09:50:01 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " |linux user:267497 -------------------------------- Life can be so tragic -- you're here today and here tomorrow.
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