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Description of problem:
CTRL-ALT-KEYPADPLUS/CTRL-ALT-KEYPADMINUS mode switching does not work (striking keys does nothing) after a fresh install of Fedora 8 on a system (ViewSonic P225f-5 monitor, ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 (Radeon 9800) video card) that was having no such problems with Fedora 7. I have been able to correct some of the problems but not all.

My monitor (ViewSonic P225f-5) lost its DDC capability (does not report scan frequency tolerances) while using Fedora 7, and with it the X server's ability to support many modes. I corrected this using system-config-display and manually choosing this monitor and its highest supported resolution. However, this workaround does not work in Fedora 8. Nor does the Fedora 8 problem seem related to this monitor because another well-behaved monitor (ViewSonic PS790) also worked on Fedora 7 but not on Fedora 8.

I installed the livna-packaged fglrx driver which fixed this problem but made it impossible to run compiz (compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing). I reinstalled Fedora 8 (because I could do it quicker than figuring out how to revert to the original radeon driver) and updated to xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.7.196-1.fc8. I was then able to get support for multiple resolutions for the ViewSonic P225f-5 but only after manually adding an appropriate "Virtual xdim ydim" directive to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (why?). I have not been able to get it to work with the ViewSonic PS790 (why?).

Even though I can switch between multiple resolutions on my ViewSonic P225f-5, panning through the virtual desktop does not work whether using the default metacity window manager or the (desktop effects) compiz window manager.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-33.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 8 on like system (see above)
2. Note failure of CTRL-ALT-KEYPADMINUS behavior

Actual Results:
Nothing

Expected Results:
Zoom in

Additional info:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "ViewSonic P225f-5"

        # the ViewSonic P225f monitor's DDC stopped reporting its attributes!
        # (see /var/log/Xorg.*.log).
        # without knowing the scanning bounds, xorg will be very conservative
        # and limit the display to 800x600.
        # this can be corrected by adding a properly configured Monitor section
        # and associating it with the Screen.
        # system-config-display can be used
        # or we can use /usr/share/hwdata/MonitorDB:
        #       ViewSonic; ViewSonic P225f-5; VSC8012; 30-127; 50-160
        # to specify HorizSync and VertRefresh.
        HorizSync    30.0 - 127.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0

        # specify the Gamma appropriate for this videocard/monitor.
        Gamma        1.16
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes   "2048x1536" "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480"
                # ? default Virtual X Y should accomodate above Modes but ...
                Virtual 2048 1536
        EndSubSection
EndSection