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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #48289
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 48289

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Martins (martins) wrote : Re: [Bug 48289] Re: Gnome desktop screen is offset to the right by 1/2 Icon

Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Hi Martins,
>
> Thanks, yes I appreciate it if you can do some testing. It would be a
> useful piece of information if we can prove that this is yet another
> symptom of bug 3731 as my gut says it probably is.
>
> Regarding plug-n-play detection, yes you're definitely right that it
> *should* work like that, but in practice the detection does not work
> that well. I think it will be better as we upgrade to newer versions of
> X, but we'll have to see.
>
> Yes, for issue #2, the work around is to handcode the correct rates into
> the xorg.conf file. But really we want the autodetection to work
> properly, since who wants to handcode config files? :-)
>
>
 In line with the conjectures in my previous email.
Adding vga=0x31b to the boot options in menu.lst didn't help. It gave a
higher resolution boot splash, but once it got to the GDM log in screen
it was the same as before.

That's all for now. If you need me to try more stuff, it will be next
weekend.

Martins