On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > Version: 1:6.8.192-1 > Severity: normal > > Up until the last few days, when I started my laptop (1400x1050) with an > external screen (LCD 1280x1024), X would automatically lower the resolution so > that it was appropriate for the external screen, instead of the 1400x1050 it > normally uses on my laptop (IBM T24 with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600). It doesn't > do that any more.
This is an xserver change. > > Now I get a cropped 1400x1050 on the external LCD instead. E.g. I can only see > the upper half of the KDE panel on the external screen. The lowest part of the > desktop is not shown. The xserver mode default mode chooser has changed. Nothing to do with the driver. removing the "Modes" line from your config may fix it: Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "700x525" "640x480" > > When I try to lower the resolution to 1280x1024 using kcontrol, the external > screen becomes black and a 1280x1024 image is shown only on the laptop screen. > kcrontrol is probably not xrandr 1.2 compliant and probably uses the old xrandr 1.0 API which only affect one of the outputs and leads to problems on multi-head systems. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
