Wrong display position on my laptop

Alkisx · 11-12-2007, 09:52 AM

First of all, I am talking about my laptop, it is an old Toshiba satellite 1900-203.
Graphics card: ATI Mobility Radeon M6.

I can't find any solution on this, so here is my problem:

Having installed slackware 12, everything was great. But since no updates on the repositories for a long time, I decided to try and install slackware-current.
I downloaded the dvd, and installed it. on first entrance on KDE, without running xorgconfig, the display was fine.
After logging out, go to console, run xorgconfig, giving the same choices as I do for a long time now, and then getting back to KDE, my screen is positioned about half inche higher.
Also the same disposition happens on the console. So maybe it is not kde, don't know...

Tried xvidtune, it does not let me position the display by pressing down. I simply does do anything on that.
I said ok, I will put the modeline on xorg.conf. Put the modeline that always worked, restarted KDE, but nothing changed.
I cannot do anything else, I have no idea why is this happening. But at least, why does not parse the modeline settings? Everything was working great for so many years!

Thank you for your attention

slackass · 11-13-2007, 08:52 PM

You might try running xorgsetup as root init 3.
It always fixes things for me.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-14-2007, 03:46 AM

Also, check the BIOS options for anything related to the screen. For me there is a screen stretching option that centers and stretches the screen to the display area.

Alkisx · 11-15-2007, 04:10 AM

Thank yo very much for your tips.

I will try running xorgsetup in init 3, something didn't check up to now.

The problem it isn't hardware/bios relative, because in slackware 12, ubuntu,kubuntu,vector as also freebsd and pc-bsd that I tested, the screen is perfeclty posisioned.

So I will try slackass' suggestion and let you know.

This is a strange thing about slackware. Once I installed it once, no matter how many problems I face, I cannot do without it. It is the only distribution that makes me feel that everything is in my hands. That I know what is going on on my system.

Thank you again

Alkisx · 11-23-2007, 06:01 AM

Finally got everything(except touchpad) working great and faster than ever!

xorgsetup did not solve the problem. The problem sovled after two upgrades of xorg through slackpkg.

On the first upgrade, the display problem fixed, but then another problem arised: Some keys on my keyboard where not functioning or acting like different keys (e.g. arrows, print screen and similar).

Found in this forum that this was a bug on xorg, and the next day rechecked for upgrades. There was a new xorg version again, upgraded and everthing worked great!

Except for one thing that didn't work from the beggining: The touchpad.

Not a big problem to me, but in some situations it is usefull.

Maybe in a future upgrade of xorg, I'll have also my touchpad working.

Having slackware on my laptop working again! Faster than ever!

Thank you for your help.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-23-2007, 08:11 AM

For the touchpad try editing '/etc/rc.d/rc.modules' or '/etc/rc.d/rc.modules-$(uname -r)', most built-in touchpads use the psmouse driver:

Code:

# PS/2 mouse support:
# The default in Slackware is to use proto=imps because that works with the
# most types of mice out of the box.  For example, using proto=any will
# completely break the mouse if you change consoles with several models of KVM
# switches.
if echo $SHORTREL | grep -qvw 2.4 ; then
  /sbin/modprobe psmouse
fi

make sure it says just 'psmouse' without the 'proto=imps', as this causes many touchpads not to work. You may need to run 'xorgsetup' again if it doesn't work just by doing that.

If you don't want to restart just run this as root:

Code:

rmmod psmouse
modprobe psmouse

BCarey · 11-23-2007, 11:55 AM

Alkisx,

You probably know this if you've been using Slack for a while, but just in case, in Slackware -current is the unstable, development version. So you can count on things breaking (and being fixed) from day to day and week to week.

Also, I'm not sure what kind of touchpad you have, but while you can get basic functionality with the psmouse module, you may need to download and install other drivers to get full functionality.

Brian