1 Topic by jt0000

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Topic: screen resolution

When I start Gparted, the resolution of my screen is wrong: it is as if the virtual screen is much larger than my actual screen and I only see the icons on top and a very small part of the main window. My VGA card is ATI Radeon 9100 IGP, which should be supported. While booting, I choose either Gparted Live with default settings or Gparted live with Safe graphic settings. Then in the main screen I enter Fluxbox menu and mange to select Exit X so that I can give the command sudo Forcevideo. Here it says that the driver is vega, and I enter ATI. Furthermore I can select different resolutions. Then returning to the main Gparted screen the result is always the same: the size of the virtual screen did not change and I only see the upper left part, so that I cannot interact with the main Gparted window. Any suggestion is appreciated

2 Reply by class413

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Re: screen resolution

Try to use VESA graphics driver with a resolution of 1024x768 or 800x600. This works on almost any system.
Another issue recently reported is that the use of a HDMI interconnection cable caused very tiny screen fonts. In this case, an ordinary VGA cable gave the solution.

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