Description of problem: When playing with xrandr -s and the available screen sizes, I found that switching from one particular one to another resulted in a messed up screen: it was as though it drew the whole thing onto the left-hand half of the screen and then repeated a section of that several times to the right. So that if I moved my mouse over to the right, I would see several cursors moving in sync. Switching to a virtual text console and back cures it. Switching to a different size as an intermittent stage stops it happening. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-42. How reproducible: every time on this machine. $ xrandr SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh *0 1280 x 1024 ( 342mm x 271mm ) *60 1 1280 x 960 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 60 2 1152 x 864 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 3 1024 x 768 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 70 60 4 800 x 600 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 72 60 56 5 640 x 480 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 72 60 6 1152 x 768 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 54 7 832 x 624 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 74 Current rotation - normal Current reflection - none Rotations possible - normal Reflections possible - none $ xrandr -s 5 $ randr -s 0 That's it. Does it every time for me. Going from 1 to 0 does not cause it. I can play around with more "if I go from here to here to here" combinations if it helps. 5 is fine, incidentally. It's the move from 5 to 0 which messes it up. Monitor is a Dell LCD which does up to 1280x1024. Video card is a Trident CyberBlade.
I have seen this problem also. In my case it was switching from 1024x768 to 640x480 that messed up the screen. The problem remained even when I switched back to 1024x768 but now there were several "stripes" with repeated content. Like so: 1. Screen from (0,0)-(127,768) 2. Black area from (128,0)-(255,768) 3. Screen from (256,0)-(383,768) [same contents as in 1] 2. Black area from (384,0)-(512,768) I am not sure about 128, 256, 384, 512 limits. These are just estimated values (and easier to count with).
With the new xorg release available (xorg-x11-6.7.0-2) I can no longer reproduce the problem. I've tried changing resolutions back and forth between the available resolutiuons without noticing any problems.
This could be related to bug #120950 perhaps. That's the only thing that's changed that might affect this that I can think of off the top of my head. Telsa, can you test the current FC2 bits and let me know if this issue is still reproduceable, or wether it's resolved now? Thanks in advance, TTYL
Assuming the problem is fixed now for everyone in Fedora Core 2, as per comment #2 above. Please reopen if problem returns. Thanks again. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE" of FC2.