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Re: offset x screen



On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:40:35AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Bruce McIntyre wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Thanks for trying to describe what you see, but I'm afraid I don't get the
> > > picture.
> > 
> > (Scratches his head) Ok, I'll do a series of pictures
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thanks, I think I get it now.
> 
> 
> > It refuses to go into a normal 1024x768 mode. Instead it goes to a reso-
> > lution which resembles 800x600.  224 pixels are wrapped instead of pan-
> > ned horizontally and pans are normal for 168 pixels vertically. When the
> > modeline has only 800x600 and then 640x480, the overlap does not occur.
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                  (and panning as well)  

> What happens if you switch resolutions with ctrl-alt-{+,-}?

the same thing for + and - it seems to want to switch to 640x480, but
the mouse ( and everything else on the screen is ghosted and repeated
in colums. (this is where ascii art really begins to fail!)
(stirs paints)

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   
|    
|
|
|    \                    \                        \                    \
|                   


each image of the mouse is made up of only a few horizontal lines... 

not this           but this        followed by 

 #                   #               
 ##                                    ##
#####               #####
  #                                     #
   #                   #
   
> Please send me a log privately.

I am a newbie... does this mean you want the output of startx &> foo.txt?
I'll send you that now.



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