Description of problem: After login the system only shows 3/4 of the desktop and scrolls when mouse reaches right side revealing remainder of the desktop. Aspect ratio is also messed up. Must set resolution to a lower value like 1600x1200 and back to original 1920x1200 value upon each login to get correct result. As a result of going to an even lower resolution (oops!) all of my applets got shuffled around and my main menu is now in the middle of the toolbar. The main menu can not be moved like the other applets... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Not sure which component is responsible here are a few (system yum'ed 2007/10/04) : xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.2-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login Actual results: 3/4 desktop shown must mv mouse to the right to see the rest. Apsect ratio incorrect Expected results: Full desktop visible on lcd monitor. Additional info: Monitor set under "System->Administration->Display" to Generic 1920x1200 because my Viewsonic VP2330wb is not in the list. Xorg.log file attached.
Created attachment 215431 [details] Xorg.log
Clarification: Monitor resolution set under "System->Administration->Display" to highest available choice of 1920x1200. Monitor type set to LCD Panel 1920x1200 i.e. Generic->1920x1200. The system has been rebooted several since these settings were changed during fedora 7 installation so Xserver has been restarted with these values. System is dual boot and FC6 behave correctly with these same settings. Upon login Preference->Hardware->Screen->Display Resolution (<-- actual english wording may differ running in .fr and translating!) says 1920x1200 60Hz. The preference must be set to a lower value and back to 1920x1200 to fix the problem. The /home directory was previously running under FC6 and thus many gnome environment user setting were inherited from FC6. However root which is "fresh" also misbehaves in the same way.
What happens when you remove (or rename to be sure) your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X?
1) Edited /etc/inittab and changed run level from 5 to 3 2) reboot 3) Logged in terminal mode. mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf ~ 4) Edited /etc/inittab and changed run level from 3 to 5 5) reboot 6) Logged in as root via gdm. Display is messed up exactly as before. 7) Used Preference->Hardware->Screen->Display->Resolution to change resolution from 1920x1200 to 1600x1200 and clicked ok 8) Told system I did not wish to keep the setting so I "returned" to 1920x1200 and all is well 9) No xorg.conf file... System did not write a new one in its place since it was moved to ~root. [root@localhost ~]# ls /etc/X11 applnk prefdm sysconfig X xinit Xresources fs serverconfig twm xdm Xmodmap [root@localhost ~]# 10) Also I only see a part of the desktop in gdm. Display scrolls if I mv pointer to the right boundary of the screen. This behaviour also existed in FC6 but at least everything worked fine after gdm login. 11) Clicked System->Administration->Display The dialog shows resolution to be 1600x1200. 12) Setting Monitor to Generic LCD 1920x1200 13) New xorg.conf file added. 14) Comparing old file and new file: [root@localhost ~]# diff ~/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf [root@localhost ~]# I also noticed something else strange while logged in as root. I had 3 rhythmbox applets on my toolbar. Last night as a regular non-root user I tried adding the rhythbox app 3 times and it never showed up(lower res had messed up my applets so I reorganized things). I have not yet used the user switching feature so these are proper login/logout between root and non-root accounts. I did have some window running that required root authentification at the time on my non-root account. Logged in again as root and the music applet which I had never added as root are gone! Strange!
Created attachment 216901 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Those rhytmbox applets which showed up during the one root login were "broken". I had to mouse over them to see what they were.
(In reply to comment #4) > 6) Logged in as root via gdm. Display is messed up exactly as before. Don't do that -- we actually don't expect anybody to use X as root. If you need to be root, just use gnome-terminal (or most sysadmin applications ask for root password when needed). And yes, the results of logging as root in X are not well defined. Sorry, that's not what thought you would do -- if you want to make it clear start in telinit 3. Do (as root without X running at all): mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.testing and then telinit 5 What happens? (and please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt) The point is -- do not even try to run system-config-display. > I also noticed something else strange while logged in as root. I had 3 rhythmbox > applets on my toolbar. Last night as a regular non-root user I tried adding the > rhythbox app 3 times and it never showed up(lower res had messed up my applets This is probably red herring -- I mean, it is probably bug with Gnome or rhythmbox, but it has nothing to do with resolution of Xorg. > Logged in again as root and the music applet which I had never added as root are > gone! Strange! See above. Thanks and sorry for bothering you again.
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
I will reply in the next few days... Holidays got in the way + I never log out so once I fix the resolution I am good to go :)
OK, but let's that NEEDINFO in power.
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.