Hardware is IBM thinkpad t43 with ATI radeon video: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] Monitor is Sony LCD (system-config-display detects it as 'SDM-S73') When using the laptop display, things work fine at 1024x768. However, after shutting down, connecting to docking station, and then rebooting, X and gnome are confused. The face-browser only seems to fill about 800x600 worth of pixels, and the gnome panels are placed as if for an 800x600 desktop. The desktop extends to the full 1280x1024 resolution. Maximized windows fit just fine in the entire display, with the 'bottom' panel on top of them. Also, system-config-display says the resolution is set to 1024x768, but the monitor claims 1280x1024, which looks correct to me. Adjusting the panels works to some degree - the bottom panel can be dragged to the bottom of the screen, but I can't convince the top panel to behave at all.
Created attachment 210611 [details] screenshot
Created attachment 210621 [details] xorg.conf I'm using the auto-generated xorg.conf and the radeon driver. No funny business.
Robin, still, we could use that /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Created attachment 213821 [details] xorg log Sure, there it is.
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Hardware is Gateway MX7525 (laptop) Monitor is a "LCM-22w3" external LCD monitor. Video card is an "ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]" using the radeon driver. Version is Fedora 8 test 3. Just like Robin things work fine on my 1024x768 laptop display, but upon switching to the external monitor the fedora loading and login screens only fill 1024x768 of the screen (the rest is black), then upon login the desktop is the correct size but the gnome panels are placed as if the desktop was still 1024x768. I can drag the bottom panel to fix it, but the top panel refuses to become wider than 768px. All windows work fine. system-config-display reports a resolution of 1280x800, which is correct. In fedora test 2, system-config-display reported 1024x768 for the resolution, which was incorrect as the display was acting the same. This external monitor works correctly with Fedora 7. My /var/long/Xorg.0.log is posted above ^
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My apologies, I had some numbers wrong in Comment #6. My actual resolution is 1680x1050. system-config-display has the WRONG resolution when it says 1280x800, which is what I believe the gnome panels and fedora log are being sized for.
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