I have a Compaq nx9010 laptop with the following graphics card (from lspci); 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M ... and a 1024x768 resolution display. Under F7, I have been using it with a 1280 x 1024 Dell D1626HT monitor. When the monitor is connected, the laptop display is blank because it can't display the higher resolution. That's fine and expected. Following the update to F8 (from rawhide), my desktop background correctly displays at 1280x1024 and I can move windows around the full 1280x1024 area. However, the login screen is only 1024x768 and the gnome panel is only 1024 pixel wide. Worse still, if the panel position is 'bottom', it actually appears part way down the screen (at pixel row 768 rather than 1024). Windows can slide behind it and below it. Using system-config-display, I can only choose resolutions up to 1024x768, even when xorg.conf only has mode 1280x1024. The 60z refresh limit also seems to be causing lots of flicker (small transient horizontal bars) on the Dell display whenever I move windows around. Version-Release number of selected component: Fedora 8 (FC7 updated with rawhide), system-config-display-1.0.51-4.fc8 Actual results: A 1024x48 pixel gnome panel at pixel row 768 Expected results: A 1280x48 pixel gnome panel at pixel row 1024
Some progress: With the minimal xorg.conf file created by system-config-display --reconfig I have a 1024x768 display on both the laptop display and the external monitor. I can then set the external monitor to 1280x1024 as follows: $ xrandr --output LVDS --off $ xrandr -s 1280x1024 -r 85 Gnome is now aware of the resolution and correctly puts the panel at the bottom of the screen. The important bit is to turn off the laptop display. The probelm with the F8 release is that the laptop screen hardware detection is blocking gnome resolution options for external monitors (even though the X server knows about the higher resolutions).
Similar problem here, on a Dell Optiplex GX280 with a Dell AS500 LCD monitor. Resolution set at 1280x1024, but gnome panel is only 1024 px wide. Likewise, setting the panel to be on the bottom or right well into good screen real estate, with significant space beyond it (either to the right or below.) Also, maximizing windows when inside the smaller square described by the gnome-panel only maximize to that smaller square size. If I drag a window such that it exceeds the smaller square, I can then maximize it to the full screen size. Attempting to run system-config-display dies with the following error: [root@myhost ~]# system-config-display --reconfig Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 381, in <module> dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, rhpxl.videocard.VideoCardInfo()) File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 533, in __init__ self.state.recalc_mode() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rhpxl/xhwstate.py", line 387, in recalc_mode self.colordepth = availableDepth[-1] IndexError: list index out of range
Erratum: d'oh--the monitor model is Dell 1704FPVt. AS500 is the "soundbar." (Apologies).
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 278281 [details] Very basic xorg.conf file currently in use This is the xorg file created automatically, although I've removed additional screen modes to just leave 1280x1024 and 1024x768
Created attachment 278301 [details] The Xorg log file from today Both the laptop and Dell monitors are detected. Line 2544 shows the 1280x1024 display as out of range for the laptop display. On login, both displays are active, with the high res. Dell showing my full 1280x1024 desktop background. However, the gnome panel is positioned part-way down the screen at the 1024x768 position. Running a script with these two commands fixes the panel position: xrandr --output LVDS --off xrandr -s 1280x1024 -r 85
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