Fullscreen problem.

[stephun]

Hi folks,

My env:
- distro: Fedora Core 6
- kernel: 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
- driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631-pkg1.run
- card: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)

My problem:
after a kernel update the fullscreen is shrunken. That is when i start a application in fullscreen (i.e. 'mplayer -fs', or stepmania (a game), etc) the whole screen is black and the application screen is a little central quad only 10x10cm.

Mplayer (a video player) have an option "-zoom", so i can zoom the shrunken fullscreen to proper fullscreen, but another applications does not have such a option.

Any idea, what happened? How to resolve this?
TIA
S.

[whig]

If the apps and games are changing screen resolution the refresh rate can change, which then can cause display "shrinkage" shall I say.

Another thing is that if your xorg.conf has only one resolution, 1280x1024 or whatever, changing to a lower resolution puts the display in a smaller area down the bottom left. Adding modes to xorg.conf will fix that.

[stephun]

Hi whig,

> If the apps and games are changing screen resolution the refresh rate can change, which then can cause display "shrinkage" shall I say.

and, how to avoid this?

> Another thing is that if your xorg.conf has only one resolution, 1280x1024 or whatever, changing to a lower resolution puts the display in a smaller area down the bottom left. Adding modes to xorg.conf will fix that.

Ok, my modes (xorg 7.1 ):

Modes "1600x1200" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

but still all fullscreen applications shrink the display :-(

Any idea how to fix this issue?
TIA
S.

[whig]

Refresh rates can be specified individually for each resolution in xorg.conf, but make them all the same. I forget how this is done now, because I always keep the same resolution and have no need to go lower... eg it was "1024x768_85" for me.

The lower modes may not be enabled, even if you specify them. My laptop only likes 1680x1050 for example. See if you can get a lower mode like 1280x1024 manually by pressing ctrl-alt-plus (plus on num keypad). The X log will report whether or not specific resolutions are possible.

[PenGun]

It actually sounds like you are using -vo x11. There is no scaler with x11. Try vo=xv in your config.