Re: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-29 Thread Gene Horodecki
Behalf Of gene Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:00 PM To: fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com Subject: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora? Hi there.. I'm posting because Fedora is not working properly on my T42. I can't get the dual-head feature to work. I was wondering if anyone else out there has a

RE: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-29 Thread Jeremey Wise
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:00 PM To: fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com Subject: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora? Hi there.. I'm posting because Fedora is not working properly on my T42. I can't get the dual-head feature to work. I was wondering if anyone else out there has a T42 with Fedora

Re: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-22 Thread gene
Hi Kai.. I did alittle research just now and unfortunately this is due to a hardware limitation. Compiz makes a texture out of the entire desktop and apparently a single texture must fit into the video card's memory. The maximum texture size that can fit in the radeon 7500's memory is 2048x2048,

Re: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-21 Thread Kai-Thorsten Hambrecht
When I have desktop effects enabled, there are no window controls drawn after I add the 'Virtual 3200 1600'. If I disable the desktop effects, I cannot enable them with the line added. same here. Right now i did not figure out how to fix this. But desktop effects is just a "nice to have" but

Re: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-20 Thread gene
This worked perfectly! Thank you! Ok.. Except one niggly little thing.. And I realize I'm really nitpicking here. In my mind things are working; but I thought I would mention it in case there is a simple solution. When I have desktop effects enabled, there are no window controls drawn after I

Re: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-20 Thread Kai-Thorsten Hambrecht
out there has a T42 with Fedora? Someone suggested trying to use 'xrandr' to get dual head to work but all that did for me was hang Gnome. i have a T42p and an external display connected via DVI on the Thinkpad's docking station. When X starts, both displays show the same content (mirrored

Re: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-20 Thread Olivier Renault
gene wrote: Hi there.. I'm posting because Fedora is not working properly on my T42. I can't get the dual-head feature to work. I was wondering if anyone else out there has a T42 with Fedora? Someone suggested trying to use 'xrandr' to get dual head to work but all that did for me was hang Gno

Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

2008-05-19 Thread gene
Hi there.. I'm posting because Fedora is not working properly on my T42. I can't get the dual-head feature to work. I was wondering if anyone else out there has a T42 with Fedora? Someone suggested trying to use 'xrandr' to get dual head to work but all that did for me was hang Gnome. I'm hopi