On 12 Feb 2003, Kris Finkenbinder wrote: > I have a laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility-P (1280x1024 max res). It was > working just dandy with Mandrake 9.0, but I just updated a ton of > packages to the Cooker versions to get a preview of KDE3.1. (It's very > nice, BTW) But along the way X was upgraded to 4.2.99 (4.3.0rc1, > apparently), and suddenly it had a problem with my Rage Mobility-P. Now > whenever I try to use the ati driver, there is an invisible horizontal > line about 1/4th of the way down the screen, where the mouse cursor just > stops. When I take the mouse cursor down to the bottom of the screen, it > wraps around to the top 1/4 of the screen. When I attempt to click on > things on the screen, I have to hover over a point vertically about > 1/4th of the screen below the object I'm trying to click on.
> So in short, the screen that the mouse sees seems to be shifted about > 250 pixels down from the actual screen. Another odd thing that happens > is the actual picture on the screen is "stretched" by about 3/4ths of an > inch (about 1.5cm, maybe about 20 pixels) and the bottom part of the > screen image is pushed off the screen. So in icewm I can't even see the > taskbar. When I wrap the mouse around to the top of the screen and it > hits the top of that "stretched" area, it also gets stretched, pixel by > pixel. > I had seen this oddness when I booted up Knoppix a couple of months ago > and thought it was just something off about Knoppix, but I just booted > up a very recent version and it still has this problem. I keep updating > XFree86 from Cooker every few days and the problem isn't going away. > I've tried Mandrake's latest X configuration tools and the command-line > xf86cfg (even that had the problem so I used xf86cfg -textmode > -nomodules). So far the only way I've been able to use the card > productively is by using the vesa driver. Try Option "LCDSync" in the XF86Config's device section. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
