Hi Alan,
The monitor works fine in Windows NT4. The shift happens in as soon as I get in to KDE.
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Roman....adjust your monitor (buttons on front, directions in
> monitor owner's manual).
>
> Alan
>
> Romanator wrote:
> >
> > Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black
>border on the left side
> > rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto
>configured, except for the
> > monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the left
>border is a lot larger
> > than the right border.
> >
> > My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to
>resize. E shifted to D.
> > I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> > Roman
> > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > > Roman....delete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button.
> > >
> > > Alan
> > >
> > > Romanator wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Alan,
> > > >
> > > > I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen.
> > > > The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been
> > > > partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as
> > > > possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
> > > >
> > > > I can see in the DrakX installation:
> > > >
> > > > The Setup file systems
> > > >
> > > > File system types: Ext2 Swap FAT Other Empty
> > > > ---------
> > > > | hda |
> > > >
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > | -------------------- -------------------
> > > > ------------------------------
> > > > | | | |
> > > > | | |
> > > > | | C | | D |
> > > > | E |
> > > > | | | |
> > > > | | |
> > > > | -------------------- --------------------
> > > > ------------------------------
> > > > | ---------------
> > > > | |Choose action| | Details
> > > > ----------------------------------------
> > > > | ---------------|
> > > > | Device: hda5
> > > > | |Mount point |
> > > > | DOS drive letter: D (just a guess)
> > > > | ---------------|
> > > > | Type: DOS FAT16
> > > > | | Resize |
> > > > | Size: 2047 MB (10%)
> > > > | ---------------| |
> > > > | | Delete | |
> > > > | ---------------| |
> > > > _______________________________________________________
> > > > __________________
> > > > | Clear all |
> > > > | Auto allocate | |
> > > > Undo |
> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > ------------------------
> > > > ___________________________________________________________________________
> > > >
> > > > |
> > > > Done
> > > > |
> > > >
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Note:
> > > > hda is the entire drive
> > > > hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C
> > > > hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D
> > > >
> > > > 1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could
> > > > not find any other way of copying the instructions)
> > > > Two common partition are: the root partition ( / ), which
> > > > is the starting point of the file system's directory
> > > > hierarchy,
> > > > and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the
> > > > operating system when the computer is first turned on.
> > > >
> > > > Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I
> > > > selected the 2nd button - which is hda5
> > > >
>***************************************************************************************
> > > >
> > > > This is were the confusion sets in:
> > > >
> > > > 2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this
> > > > is a factory install from Dell.
> > > > 2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button.
> > > > Another window pops up asking:
> > > > Where do you want to mount device hda5?
> > > > Next to the Mount point field appears: /
> > > > I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5
> > > > 2c) If I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace (
> > > > / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot.
> > > > A drop down arrow shows the following selection.
> > > >
> > > > /
> > > > /boot
> > > > /home
> > > > /mnt/dos
> > > > /mnt/iso
> > > > /tmp
> > > > /usr
> > > > /va
> > > >
> > > > 3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the
> > > > delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5
> > > > is empty.
> > > > 3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message
> > > > appears:
> > > > partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector
> > > > #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping!
> > > > at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ...
> > > > propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47
> > > > 3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap
> > > > were all there.
> > > >
> > > > Sounds confusing?
> > > >
> > > > Sorry about the long email, and I hope you understand what I
> > > > am getting at. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just
> > > > about 1/2 of D.
> > > >
> > > > Roman
