Display problem-won't fill screen

[stevewonderful]

I have a old HP Ominbook XE3 laptop. I want to use pclinuxos on it. All versions won't fill the screen all the way. It fills about 65% of the screen. I have tried adjusting the display settings six ways to sunday and nothing works. Currently using easypeasy linux with no troubles. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Here's more info on the laptop.
~Steve

[Ertain]

Does it fully recognize your graphics card?  Are you using the Xorg driver for the S3 Savage IX (if any)?  Also, have you tried changing the refresh rate of the screen?  For example, you can use the KRandRTray application in KDE for changing the Refresh rate as well as the screen Size.

[rick0612]

Another thing: Is your monitor hardware set for the correct size in Configure your computer -> Hardware -> Configure Video Card?

Hope this helps

Rick.

[CaptainSarcastic]

I'm not sure if this is of any help, but I was running PCLOS 2007 on a desktop machine with onboard S3 graphics of about the same generation you seem to be running.  I kept beating my head against a wall trying to get 3D acceleration to work, and finally got it fixed by removing all video drivers except for the S3 one I needed.  Once I dumped all the Nvidia and ATI drivers the S3 driver took and worked, and my graphics worked fine after that.  Not sure if this might help, but figured I would mention it just in case.