Re: Please help: Dell laptop-display stuck in center of screen



On Jun 26, 3:40 pm, Ed from AZ <prof_ofw...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've had a bit of a fight with my video drivers.  I finally figured
out that what I thought was a driver I was reinstalling was just an
update!  Got the drivers back onto my Dell Latitude D600 (Win XP sp2),
and the display is working ~almost~ normal.

Except:
-- It seems to be stuck on high resolution (vey small icons) no matter
where I set the resolution.
-- The desktop image is stuck in the center of the screen, with inches
of black space all around.

I thought I saw a "scale image to panel" option in my display options
(right-click on desktop >> settings >> advanced), but I can't find it
any more.  (ATI Mobiilty Radeon 9000).

I went into the BIOS setup and enabled the screen enlargement.  That
worked great - until Windows fully booted and the desktop shrunk back
to the center!

Can someone suggest anything that might help?

Thanks!
Ed

Take a look at your monitor settings as well. You may need to expand
the vertical and horizontal size of what is the visible area on your
screen to accommodate your driver and Windows settings.

.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Write directly to video
    ... You could paint the framebuffer yourself, if you knew where it was. ... The display driver is not designed to be loaded ... videomemory, but donot know how. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder)
  • RE: Problem in setting Display resolution from TD
    ... I do not see the display resolution settings from TD ... driver so it means the driver is working fine in Windows XP Prof.. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)
  • Re: [opensuse] Full HD on onboard X1250
    ... Now the problem is that maximum I can get with ati drivers is ... a proprietary driver and sax2 can only know so much. ... open display running from Desktop gnome terminal. ... a corresponding screen to the "Screens" section of your xorg.conf. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Display Properties will not apply settingsNVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 6
    ... my settings in display properties resets to ... apply and restart and they reset to the above. ... The correct monitor and Adapter are selected. ... I ran a update search for each and it says I have the latest driver version. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Intel embedded graphics driver
    ... In the INF file check the settings.. ... you boot with a VGA monitor not plugged in it disables this output. ... I just forgot that I tried the embedded driver and it behaved the same way ... According Userguide, display config should be set in the .INF file, I did it ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)

Loading