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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Screen larger than monitor size ... Why ? Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 07:34:39 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 39 Message-ID: <32463D8F.4F07@www.play-hookey.com> References: <pgn2yi9d50.fsf@theta.Microchip.COM> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Vineet Pancholi wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been enjoying my FreeBSD rev 2.1.0. with Xfree86. Everything is > good, but for the screen. > > I have a 17 inch monitor. But the mouse can be moved beyond the bottom > right corner, and it appears as if the screen is actually larger than > the size of the monitor. > > No. I am not talking about virtual screens of my FVWM2. > > Please ask me another question, if this makes little sense. ( ie. if I > am not describing my problem well enough ...) > > Please suggest what do I need to go fix. > Maybe nothing. Two possibilities suggest themselves to me: 1. Remember that the tip of the mouse pointer is the actual "hot spot." It won't move off the screen. However, the rest of the arrow will (true for me in both Windoze and X), leaving only the very tip of the arrow visible along the bottom and right edges. If that's what you see, it's not a fault. 2. Shifting from text mode to high-res graphics, many monitors experience a change in raster size and placement. Check to see if the right edge of the raster has slid off the visible screen. If so, resize/reposition the visible display. I hope this helps! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |