Desperate Problem With Laptop Screen

Dear all

I have DESPERATE PROBLEM

The screen of my laptop Compaq Armada E 500 an LCD has decided to given me a horror show. On boot sequence it shows a much reduced screen 1/4th the normal size with tiny fonts bang in the centre of the screen. The on the GUI logon onwards the visible area is only the top 1/4th.

I have tried booting up using a knoppix live cd with the same results.

The machine is a PIII originally preloaded with win2k then XP, in June I installed FC1 and then in Spetember FC2 and in OCtober Suse 91. pro.

Under windows too I remember some similar problem when my entire screen got reset and was reduced and this got rectified when I installed win xp

The Suse logon had an opening message saying the the x and y of your monitor has not been set do you want to do it manually, and whatever I tried I could not do it. (rectify it that is)

Could this be some harware preset something or could I have blown my screen apart.

I can access the CLI but enabling failsafe boot. But am not a cli person so don't really know what to look for, is ther some file etc that would give some info about the conditions.

Thanks

Topic Moved to Laptop Forum.

Originally posted by spider@Nov 13 2004, 07:37
Dear all

I have DESPERATE PROBLEM

The screen of my laptop Compaq Armada E 500 an LCD has decided to given me a horror show. On boot sequence it shows a much reduced screen 1/4th the normal size with tiny fonts bang in the centre of the screen. The on the GUI logon onwards the visible area is only the top 1/4th.

I have tried booting up using a knoppix live cd with the same results.

The machine is a PIII originally preloaded with win2k then XP, in June I installed FC1 and then in Spetember FC2 and in OCtober Suse 91. pro.

Under windows too I remember some similar problem when my entire screen got reset and was reduced and this got rectified when I installed win xp

The Suse logon had an opening message saying the the x and y of your monitor has not been set do you want to do it manually, and whatever I tried I could not do it. (rectify it that is)

Could this be some harware preset something or could I have blown my screen apart.

I can access the CLI but enabling failsafe boot. But am not a cli person so don't really know what to look for, is ther some file etc that would give some info about the conditions.

Thanks

Sounds similar to the problem I had with my Compaq Armada 7400. Using Sax2 there is a Compaq LCD 1024 Color picking this gets rid of the message and seems to work fine. The max resolution of my screen is 1024x768, hopefully the E500 is the same.

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...showtopic=8124

Should help you to set resolution and refresh rate manually.