Desktop zoom not working for Fedora-8
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Tue Apr 1 01:23:12 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 20:22 -0400, William M. Perkins wrote:
> On 2008.03.31 18:39, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > We will be testing Fedora-9 when it is released to see if the Zoom
> > feature
> > > has been fixed. Otherwise, we will continue to use Fedora-7 as
> > long
> > as we
> > > can until an alternative software distribution can be found, Our
> > having
> > > to use Fedora-7 over Fedora-8 puts a real crimp in our development
> > effort.
> >
> > More information would be useful - eg which card is affected - and
> > for
> > that matter what does xrandr show ?
> >
> Okay... I have one example of a laptop that has had problems but is
> currently running Fedora-8: An IBM A31p Thinkpad. I have two more of
> these laptops that had Fedora-8 installed on them that have now been
> reverted to Fedora-7 because of the Zoom problem. The other systems
> currently running Fedora-8 are server systems that are not running X
> Windows. There are some workstations in remote locations running
> either Fedora-8, Fedora-7 or some version of Ubuntu that are not aware
> of the problem or are not using the feature.
>
> The Zoom feature tries to work with this laptop but fails to return to
> the original virtual desktop size and does not allow the mouse to push
> the borders of windows that are smaller than the virtual window. X has
> to be restarted to restore the original largest desktop.
>
>
> Video card used in the IBM A31p Thinkpad:
>
> lspci -v
> .....
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 LX
> [Mobility FireGL 7800 M7] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 0518
> Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium
> devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
> Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
> I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
> Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> Kernel modules: radeonfb
> .....
>
>
>
> # xrandr
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1200
> default connected 1600x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm
> 1600x1200 85.0* 75.0 70.0 65.0 60.0
> 1400x1050 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 1280x960 85.0 60.0
> 1152x864 75.0 100.0 85.0 70.0 60.0
> 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0 87.0
> 800x600 85.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0 70.0
> 65.0
> 640x480 85.0 75.0 73.0 67.0 60.0
> 1280x1024 85.0 75.0 60.0
> 1440x900 60.0
> 1360x768 60.0
> 1280x800 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 1280x768 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 1280x720 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 1152x768 55.0
> 960x720 60.0
> 928x696 60.0
> 896x672 75.0 60.0
> 960x600 85.0 75.0 73.0 70.0 60.0
> 832x624 75.0
> 960x540 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 840x525 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 700x525 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 640x512 85.0 75.0 60.0
> 720x450 60.0
> 720x400 88.0 70.0 85.0
> 680x384 60.0
> 640x400 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 576x432 100.0 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 640x384 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 640x360 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
> 640x350 85.0
> 576x384 55.0
> 512x384 85.0 75.0 70.0 60.0 87.0
> 416x312 75.0
> 400x300 85.0 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0
> 320x240 85.0 75.0 73.0 60.0
> 360x200 85.0
> 320x200 85.0
> 320x175 85.0
>
>
>
> And since the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file I am using is small:
>
> cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "single head configuration"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "radeon"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1600x1200" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> William M. Perkins, KJ4ASH UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator
> The Greenwood ARES AEC Henrico County, VA
> Richmond, Virginia E-mail - wmp at grnwood.net
>
>
I have Fedora 7 here and 8 on two other machines and I didn't even know
about the zoom. I wish I had. But it doesn't work here either. Is
there something that has to be set to enable it? Is it just called
desktop zoom or how should I google it? Glaucoma here makes reading web
pages and finding Icons difficult sometimes, along with some
applications I need to run.
Regards,
Les H
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