I've got a lovely little, fairly beat-up Sony Vaio PCG-SRX77p in my hot
greedy little hands. It runs Windows XP fairly happily, but I'm dual-booting
it with RedHat Linux and Fedore Core 1 and trying Fedora Core 2 test 3
release (as of a day or two ago). Re-installing it from scratch with Core 2
test 3 release got the SELinux whackiness to stop screaming at all my
console logins. (Yes, SELinux is supposed to be more secure, but if it stops
screaming at all my console prompts with error logs, bugger that!)
However, the normal console and all X windows only show up as half of the
screen, apparently 640x480 out of the available 1024x768 pixels on its
little sub-notebook size screen. I'd really prefer to have all of it
available, but don't know and can't figure out what screen to set it to with
redhat-config-xfree86 or with the newer system-config-display setting. (Sony
websites and support sites are absolutely useless aabout telling you the
actual name of the the display unit, only that it is is "1024x768", and have
no hint of Linux support).
So does anyone have a working XF86Config for that device? Or know the name
of the actual display as far ar the X configuration tool is concerned? Or am
I missing something in my boot prompts to enable the use of the full screen
instead of the roughly half screen display it uses?
By the way, other than this and a few little details, I really really like
Fedora on this box. Fedora has been overall a much more stable release than
any RedHat x.0 releases, including the misnamed RedHat 9. (Should have been
named 9.0, but I think RedHat had heard the rumors about "no one should use
x.0 RedHat releases" and decided to change their naming schemee.)
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