> got an oddity that i've seen before, but can't for the life of me recall
> a fix for (i may have never found one, actually). i run xfree86 on an s3
> based gateway2000 ppro (donated to the ACM, we would never buy gw2k =)),
> and the server chops off about 5 pixels from the far left of the screen
> and sticks them on the right edge (a five pixel column top-to-bottom).
> they are perfectly aligned etc on the right, and i can see 5 pixels worth
> of my windows' left edges on the right edge of my desktop. the fact that
> i seem to recall having seen this on a non-s3 machine at some point makes me
> think it might be a somewhat generic issue others have run across...
> i've tried shifting with xvidtune, but it just shifts the picture on the tube,
> not what the display is showing...
>
> anyone who's seen this before and knows a somewhat generic fix, before i
> go bug the xfree guys? (running XFree86 3.3.2-18 rpm from redhat, latest
> avail in .../updates)
This was a problem with some Diamond S3-based cards with VRAM. I don't
remember having heard of it on any other cards, but maybe somebody will.
They added an option to fix it when it occurs. I remember some comment
once where some version of XF86 tried to auto-detect this case and apply
the option automatically when it was needed, but either they failed to
detect it in some cases or the autodetection messed up something else
and they removed it. The option is still listed in the 3.3.2 man page.
Try adding Option "diamond" to the Device section of your XF86Config
file.
There are some other options there as well, but I am fairly certain this
was the option to fix this problem. See the XF86_S3 man page or the file
/usr/X11/lib/X11/doc/README.S3 for more info.
/dev/joe
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