On 23 Feb 2003, Kris Finkenbinder wrote: > At least it seems to be a bug. Take note that I've seen this happening > with recent releases of XFree86 for a few months, at least. I've been > downloading new releases of Knoppix and booting them on this machine for > a few months. Each time I've seen this and just thought it was something > peculiar about the way Knoppix configured XFree86.
> What I have here is a Gateway Solo 9300, with a 15.7 inch (that's right, > 15.7, that's not a typo), 1280x1024 LCD screen, and an ATI Rage > Mobility-P video card, with 8MB of video memory, I believe. > This card was working great with X 4.2.1 that was installed with > Mandrake 9.0. I never had a problem with it. Since I started upgrading > packages to Cooker versions, it has wigged out on me. I'm unable to take > a screenshot of this effect. Apparently the window manager sees the > screen just fine, it's just what I'm seeing that's gone haywire. > Here's what I'm seeing: About one quarter from the top of the screen > there is a horizontal line, below which everything gets stretched by > about 30 pixels downward. Even the mouse cursor gets stretched when it > crosses that area. Since the screen is being stretched, the actual > bottom of the screen image is pushed off the bottom of the physical > screen, so I can't see any toolbars down there. > Along the right side of the screen, about 90 pixels away from the edge, > there is a vertical swath about 30 pixels wide that is just "screwed up" > like it's being seen through a filter or something. The effect is most > marked around the edges of things, and on fonts. > I'm not including a config file because it is pretty obviously not a > configuration problem. I've tried XFdrake and xf86cfg -text to > autocreate the file, and when that failed I tried all the different > available options, even "LCDsync" which wasn't in the man page but was > suggested on [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Marc la France. Nothing has made any With "LCDSync", please ensure that the "Native panel mode" is not the first mode, or Ctl-Alt-+ from the first mode to see if that clears the problem. > difference at all, except Option "SWcursor". Without that option, I > can't click on anything without hovering over an invisible point about > 200 pixels below the object I'm trying to click on. Also without that > option, the mouse cursor will hit the bottom of that stretched area and > stop dead, like it thinks it's at the top of the screen. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
