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Right resolution but blank space on right side of screen...

Hey,

I just bought a new Gateway m-152s and put Ubuntu on to it. During the Live CD portion, there was a blank space to the right side of the screen. It may have been about 3-4" wide and went from the top to the bottom of the screen. I figured that it would fix itself upon a successful installation, but no dice.

The resolution is set at 1280x800 and here is a picture of what it looks like: http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/l...Screenshot.png

I've tried looking on Google, but no luck. I'll continue to look, but any help is much appreciated.

The screen displays fine at 1024x768. The graphic controller is an Intel Mobile PM965.

Thanks,

Brandon

I'm still unable to find anything, but I did try messing around with the xorg.conf file a little bit. Here is what it looks like originally:

Code:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)

#

# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using

# values from the debconf database.

#

# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.

# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)

#

# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*

# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg

# package.

#

# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated

# again, run the following command:

#  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg



Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier        "Generic Keyboard"

        Driver                "kbd"

        Option                "XkbRules"        "xorg"

        Option                "XkbModel"        "pc105"

        Option                "XkbLayout"        "us"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier        "Configured Mouse"

        Driver                "mouse"

        Option                "CorePointer"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier        "Synaptics Touchpad"

        Driver                "synaptics"

        Option                "SendCoreEvents"        "true"

        Option                "Device"                "/dev/psaux"

        Option                "Protocol"                "auto-dev"

        Option                "HorizEdgeScroll"        "0"

EndSection



Section "Device"

        Identifier        "Configured Video Device"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

        Identifier        "Configured Monitor"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

        Identifier        "Default Screen"

        Monitor                "Configured Monitor"

        Device                "Configured Video Device"

EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier        "Default Layout"

        Screen                "Default Screen"

        InputDevice        "Synaptics Touchpad"

EndSection

Under "Configured Video Device" I attempted to 'Driver' underneath it and 'intel' and then 'i810' and neither of them worked. X still operated under intel, but it wouldn't start up under i810. Is this a quirk with the new version of X.org? I think Ubuntu 8.04 uses the new one. I'm downloading an older version of Linux currently and will try that. In the mean time, if anyone has anything to add, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

Brandon

I found a forum where a guy fixed the same exact problem I had. Found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=intel+965gm However, he doesn't say how he fixed it. He said he reconfigured X, which I did as well by running 'sudo dexconf', but that did nothing. He said it was attempting to use some weird resolution, but I'm not sure where to go to change that. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Brandon

Finally I found a fix. It comes from an Ubuntu forum. Here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610407

At the top it says that the fix is not needed for 8.04 and subsequently, Fedora 9, but this is NOT true. The fix STILL works. Just make sure to change the keyboard layout to 'us'... not 'se'.

After restarting X, the resolution displays perfectly fine. Not really sure what the difference is, but what the hell... it works!

Thanks,

Brandon

I wouldn't call vesa a solution, more of a work around. It isn't a fully featured driver, you don't get any hardware acceleration with vesa.

Sorry, Elliot, but my driver isn't vesa. It's Intel and I have hardware acceleration.

Brandon

Oh, my mistake, I was looking at the first xorg.conf in the thread.