Frame Buffer and X screen are bigger than my Display after kernel update

Ali Yazdi platoali at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 16:22:46 UTC 2012


Sorry, for wrong list.
I will report it.
Thank you

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:48 +0100, Ali Yazdi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I  updated my kernel few days ago from 3.3.7 to 3.4.3-1 ( both fedora
> > package). From that time, both X and Frame buffer outputs  are bigger
> > than my Screen monitor. I am using nouveau. KDE display setting is
> > showing that resolution is about 2400X2000 s ( Not the exact number as
> > I am not using that kernel now). But my native display resolution is
> > 1920x1080.
> >
> >
> > I searched and found this:
> >
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Nouveau#Framebuffer_does_not_fill_screen_or_is_larger_than_screen
> >
> >
> > I tried to set the display resolution by adding
> >  display=LVDS-1:1920X1080 to kernel param in Grub. It actually works
> > and changed my resolution but still the screen is still bigger than my
> > monitor and I am being shown only the top left part of display. When I
> > boot with the old kernel everything is OK. Here is lspci;
> >
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce
> > GT 330M] (rev a2)
> >
> >
> > Any Idea?
>
> This is the list for the GNOME desktop in Fedora, so it's the wrong
> place for this. Since it sounds like a straightforward bug, why not just
> report it to http://bugzilla.redhat.com, against Fedora 17 and the
> 'xorg-x11-drv-nouveau' component?
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