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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: magicloud on September 12, 2013, 11:16:49 PM

Title: [SOLVED] My Monitor is not used full screen.
Post by: magicloud on September 12, 2013, 11:16:49 PM

Sorry that I do not know how to describe this problem in one sentence.

I have a APU based thin client, with DVI-D output to a FullHD monitor.

All these works fine with Ubuntu Precise.

Today I switched to TCL 4.x. And found that Xorg is not shown fullly. There is a black edge around the content.

Then I noticed that the console (tty) is not full. Or the BIOS interface.

What should I do without compiling a default kernel?

Title: Re: My Monitor is not used full screen.
Post by: gerald_clark on September 13, 2013, 12:48:30 AM

Use xrandr to change your screen resolution.

Title: Re: My Monitor is not used full screen.
Post by: magicloud on September 13, 2013, 12:54:03 AM

Quote from: gerald_clark on September 13, 2013, 12:48:30 AM

Use xrandr to change your screen resolution.

Um, I do not think it is a resolution thing. The OSD menu of hardware indicated a FullHD resolution. And I tried to use Xvesa to specify the resolution, there still was the black border. Seems like the system misrecognized the display hardware and used wrong "display size".

Title: Re: My Monitor is not used full screen.
Post by: gerald_clark on September 13, 2013, 12:59:23 AM

You said you were using Xorg.
Make sure you load the drivers for your display. Then use xrandr if necessary.

Title: [SOLVED] Re: My Monitor is not used full screen.
Post by: magicloud on September 13, 2013, 01:20:59 AM

Quote from: gerald_clark on September 13, 2013, 12:59:23 AM

You said you were using Xorg.
Make sure you load the drivers for your display. Then use xrandr if necessary.

Sorry for the confusion. I want to use Xorg, but to debug this, I tried both Xorg and Xvesa.

Just noticed that there is no ATI drivers. Thank you.

Title: Re: [SOLVED] My Monitor is not used full screen.
Post by: Rich on September 13, 2013, 03:11:50 AM

Hi magicloud

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Just noticed that there is no ATI drivers.

If you are running  Xorg-7.5.tcz  they are built in. For  Xorg-7.6.tcz  there is  xf86-video-ati.tcz.
Some of these may also be of some interest:
ati-catalyst-locale.tcz
ati-catalyst.tcz
ati-fglrx-dev.tcz
ati-fglrx-kernel-source.tcz
ati-fglrx.tcz

Title: Re: [SOLVED] My Monitor is not used full screen.
Post by: curaga on September 13, 2013, 08:00:45 AM

Sounds like your monitor has overscan by default. Check in the monitor OSD if you can disable it.

The Xorg ati driver can also disable it with an xrandr command.