On a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 with a 1400x900 screen. Using Fedora Core 7 (live CD) or even Ubuntu Gusty you get a very STRANGE issue. Both Gnome and KDE will only display in the first 1024x768 pixels of the screen. Now X is running at 1400x900 and you can see apps can stretch to this resoultion. But the Gnome and KDE bars still stay in this place. Further more the Gnome display resolution app only shows a max resolution of 1024x768. I will attach pictures that give a better idea of what is going on. Here is some useful data that could help: lspci -nn: ============ 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller [ 8086:2a02] (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a 03] (rev 0c) lspci -vv: ============ 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 20b5 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step ping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20 Region 0: Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at 1800 [size=8] Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 00000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot -,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Bridge: PM- B3+ 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) Subsystem: Lenovo Unknown device 20b5 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B - Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PE RR- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at f8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Bridge: PM- B3+
Created attachment 10434 [details] picture of GDM
Created attachment 10435 [details] Gnome with firefox full screen, notice the bottom Gnome bar
Created attachment 10436 [details] KDE with browers
Created attachment 10437 [details] KDE
Created attachment 10438 [details] Xorg Log
There is an ubuntu thread on this problem also: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=467036
The following fixes the issue: xrandr --output TV --off Apparently TV out is enabled by default, and various programs try to fit into resolution constraints. I suggest that the TV out be disabled by default because 1) This resolution thing is extremely confusing 2) Power usage (presumably TV out needs some juice, haven't tested it though)
Wow! That worked! Intresting thing though is my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 does not have a TV output port on it (there could be one on the optional docking station). No matter. That fixed the problem.
Just to add more info to the bug. Lenovo DOES NOT have a TV output option for any of the Thinkpads using Intel x3100 on docking stations either. Only VGA & DVI.
*** Bug 11551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Due to repeated issues with TV load detection on hardware with no TV option (which is the usual case), our plan is to only advertise the TV output on known models if possible.
Fixed in git tree commit f403a50afbcef1e54f554481c72037338bd5357c on July 27
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