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With a fresh install of SuSE 8.2, my desktop is bigger than the monitor on the right - the mouse cursor disappears when taken to the right. Windows reappear on the left when they are dragged off screen to the right. The desktop is set to 1024x768 and virtual resolution (using SaX2) is also at 1024x768. What can a man do?
This is really starting to annoy me. Nothing I do makes the desktop fit the screen size - this causes problems with my Fluxbox slit and autohide - it's on the bottom right of the screen. When things were working right (with SuSE 8), I could just move the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen and gkrellm would pop out in the slit. Now I have to find the "sweet" spot to unhide the slit. If I move too far to the right, the pointer is gone.
YaST2 / SaX2 has an option for altering the virtual resolution but nothing happens when I alter it.
I know I could put the slit on the left and be done with it but I don't want to do that (yet.....)
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
Posts: 3,304
Rep:
the XF86Config files are usually saved in
etc/X11 for xfree4. some distributions save them under
different names. sometimes it's XF86Config-4.
pat attention to where yast saves the file, and when you
exit xfree, it think it will tell you what config it is using.
look in /etc/X11, and ls -l the files there, and see if
the dates seem right to you.(if you just saved changes, is
there a file that matches the current date). if you want
to guess which file for sure is being used, you can
rename them to something like XF86Config.me and
various other extentions. and when you rename the one
that X actually uses X will not start. if you are logging in
with kdm or some other graphical login manager, you
will need to disable that first. you can edit /etc/inittab
to start at a different runlevel, like 3 instead of 4, or
use ksysvinit to take (kdm,gdm,xdm) out of your current
runlevel.
Hmmm! What fun. I added ViewPort 0 0 - sorry but to no effect. I added 800x600 resolution and I can change to that now so I'm editing the right part of the file.
Usually I just play around with sax2 to overcome off-center screen effect after installing video driver. Sometime I experienced the problem but solved by either: updating the driver, updating XFree86, re-setting resolution etc using sax2, or tuning with xvidtune. Sometime I use xf86config just to get some modelines for my video card and monitor configuration then combined with whatever sax2 can offer.
Thanks to all for your valuable support....my mysterious right desktop extension has now gone. In the end, nobody could have helped...but I have certainly learned a lot!!! SuSE 8.2 identified my graphics card as a Riva TNT 64....that's close enough to what it is to totally pass me by. I changed the card (using YaST2) to a Riva TNT2 and -----Da-darH....problem gone.
In my defence, I didin't know that my card was a Riva TNT2 as opposed to a TNT 64. It might as well of been a TNTEngland2Slovakia1 card - so I missed it.
YIPPEE!!!
Irritating problem killed!
Thanks for your support aherm, whansard and kater!!! Hugs.
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