Problem with screen resolution in F8

[Klaasjan Brand]

On Nov 22, 2007 4:00 AM, <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> The first time I logged in after installing F8, the background picture
> covered the entire screen but the top menu bar and bottom task bar only
> extended about 2/3 the width of the screen and the bottom task bar was not
> at the bottom of the screen but about 1/2 the way up.
>
> After playing with the screen resolutions, I have 1152x864 at 60Hz and the
> bars extend all the way across the screen and the task bar is at the bottom.
>
> I have 2 problems:
> 1) The 1st 1/2 inch of the screen is missing of the left side which, for
> some reason is really bugging me.
> 2) The resolution I really want is 1280x1024 at 75Hz. This is a dual boot
> machine at 1280x1024 at 75Hz is what I use in Windows
>
> Can anyone give me some ideas as to why I can't get my desired resolution?


I've got sort of the same problem with the Xorg version as shipped with
Fedora 8. Seems to be related to a lot of changes to the Xorg radeon r300
driver.

Can you post the output of "xrandr" to check there's no second monitor
detected?

It's documented (including a workaround) on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389291

Still, it's also a Gnome desktop problem since the menu bars on the first
monitor seem to get the locations for a random resolution on a non-existent
monitor :|

Klaasjan
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