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

[Ali Yazdi]

Just for the reference:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835141



On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Ali Yazdi <platoali at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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