Hello,
For a problem discussed in an other thread, I have a display smaller than the monitor size, though looking as full pixel count.
my monitor is a full HD 23" 1920x1080. xrander say the print is 1920x1080 when what I see is a complete kde screen (including all borders), with very small letters and a black border all around of approx 2cm wide.
I guess my monitor can’t display pixels that small and the real display is not 1920x1080.
is there some rule I could display to measure the pixel number?
If you have KDE, the utility KRuler installed by default (IIRC) will display pixel counts with a pointer, and you can move the ruler to any position. I haven’t tried it on a Gnome destop though.
However that may only do relative pixel counts from your point of view.
Does your monitor have any controls and “on-screen display” for adjusting the image size to match the screen dimensions?
Other than that, there could be a problem with the Mode Line being used by the X system configuration to set up the screen geometry. Detals of that are to be found in the current /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.
You might try to set a different “Console Resolution” in YaST->System->Boot Loader->Boot Loader Options.
The fbdev driver should respect that and use it for the graphical mode.
The default “Autodetect by grub2” doesn’t work too well with nvidia cards AFAIK.
