Gentoo not using full screen on Toshiba Tecra 8100 [SOLVED]

[phoric]

I'm setting up Gentoo on my Toshiba Tecra 8100, with the S3 Savage video card. Got everything working with no problems, including wireless and dual-boot with WinXP. Except when I boot to Gentoo, the video only occupies the center portion of the screen rather than the full resolution. The display supports 1024x768, so I'm thinking that it's defaulting to 800x600 for some reason, but instead of stretching it to fit the screen, it just centers the image. This happens in the bootloader (grub) also, so I was thinking maybe it had to do with the way grub is setup, but I'm not sure. I've been playing with framebuffer settings, vga, vesa, video options, etc in grub and in the kernel without it making any difference. The 2005.1 LiveCD and Windows works fine.

Any clues as to what I should be looking at? Grub settings? Framebuffer? Kernel settings? Thanks!
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phoric

[the_mgt]

Hi!
I guess its framebuffer build into the kernel for you. Than you have to find the right video: kernel line and all should work (except the scrollbuffer, maybe...). I had the same problem on my laptop too. Grub is still in the small size, didn't figure out how to fix that and don't care much about that.

[phoric]

Been trying the framebuffer angle on this for a couple hours today. I noticed this in the output of dmseg:

[jmbsvicetto]

Hi.

I suggest that you replace the savagefb with vesafb-tng or vesafb. Then you should use on GRUB the following line.

[phoric]