[Bulk] Re: Subject:,FC12 -- video resolution problems

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/01/2010 07:30 AM, DB wrote:
> On 01/01/2010 12:35 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/01/2010 05:50 AM, DB wrote:
>>> On 01/01/2010 03:20 AM, fedora-list-request at redhat.com 
>>> <mailto:fedora-list-request at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Subject:
>>>> FC12 -- video resolution problems
>>>> From:
>>>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>
>>>> Date:
>>>> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:39:34 -0500
>>>>
>>>> To:
>>>> "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." 
>>>> <fedora-list at redhat.com> <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just did a FC12 install on my notebook, blowing away my Centos 
>>>> 5.3 install.  Big step up.
>>>>
>>>> This is on a HP nc2400 that has the Intel 945M video.  It comes up 
>>>> with only 800x600 resolution.
>>>>
>>>> So I installed system-config-display and configured the monitor 
>>>> manually to be LCD 1280x1024, but selected only 1024x768.
>>>>
>>>> I logged out and logged in, and I came up in 1024x768 video.  I 
>>>> then pressed <FN-f4> to switch to my external LCD monitor, and 
>>>> things went a bit screwy.  I should point out that my monitor is on 
>>>> a Belkin KVM.  But this has always worked in Centos.
>>>>
>>>> My situation right now is that the system is running both internal 
>>>> and external, and pressing <FN-f4> is not getting it to roll 
>>>> through internal, both, external, internal, etc. as it 'use to'.
>>>>
>>>> If I power up with the external disconnected, I come up in 1024x768 
>>>> and then if I plug the external in, it is not sized properly, like 
>>>> it is only 800x600 and thus you only see the center of the screen 
>>>> and only the background, not the running tasks.
>>>>
>>>> If I boot up with the external plugged in, the video is 800x600 for 
>>>> both internal and external, and I cannot roll through the modes.
>>>>
>>>> So what is going on here and how can I get things working 
>>>> reasonablly???
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> I have the same situation, and used the xrandr script which Marko 
>>> posted a couple of weeks ago.  This turns off the laptop screen on 
>>> startup, BUT anything which was on the laptopp screen gets "lost" 
>>> ie, I can't refer to anything which was in the trays.  If I then 
>>> click on the cashew on the external screen & hit "zoom out", it 
>>> shows me 2 screen images, the one I am using on the external screen 
>>> (with the "blue blob"background), the other which appears to be the 
>>> last laptop image with a plain blue screen.
>>>
>>> My previous F11 installation used to have the same image on both 
>>> screens, which I could "auto config" on my external screen to get it 
>>> to full screen & Fn-f5(Toshiba) would cycle happily throught the 
>>> both-ext-lap.....
>>>
>>> So far, I've not found an answer!
>>
>> Have you filed a bug report?  If not, I think it is time to do it....
> Not yet.... But I've just been googling the net & find a number of 
> references toFn-F combinations not having worked in Ubuntu a couple of 
> years ago, and also that Toshiba (apparently) is locked into M$ & 
> cannot supply info for Linux.....

Well, mine is an HP and HP ships this unit with either M$ or Ubuntu...

>
> Found that if I use xrandr --output <a> --same-as <b> I can get both 
> screens to have (basically) the same image - although not at the same 
> size!  But then zoomed out, found the 2 images under each other 
> (rather than side by side) & I lost my panel again - wish I knew where 
> they went (probably the same Black Hole where odd socks end up!)

I can have either the notebook screen at 1024x768, the external at 
800x600 with the caveat that the left fw characters are missing, or both 
at 800x600.

>
> Maybe someone from KDE can tell us how to change kcmrandrrc so as to 
> get at least the 2 screens showing the same image on startup! then we 
> can use xrandr to switch the laptop screen on and off...

I am using gnome.


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