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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