Re: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 8 May 2012 13:47:47 +0000 (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message 
<[🔎] job863$vio$2@dough.gmane.org>:

> On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:33:49 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:22:14PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> >> Yup, I also tried with "xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate right"
> >> -which works- but from there is very hard to direct the mouse to
> >> the right place, i.e., it's unmanageable.
> > 
> > 
> > Do you have an xorg.conf? 
> 
> No, that's deprecated since Squeeze. But I can try it :-)
> 
> > If so, does it set a virtual screen size?
> > 
> > SubSection "Display"
> > ...
> >    Virtual 1024 768
> > ...
> 
> Okay, let's see what happens. First, I let xserver generates the 
> xorg.conf for me:
> 
> service gdm3 stop
> Xorg -configure
> 
> It outputs an error¹ an the file is not generated (oh, well, this can
> be something to report). 
> 
> Okay, let's try another command:
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> 
> Which makes nothing... no change, no questions, no file :-?
> 
> Okay, I will generate the file manually:
> 
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> 	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
>   		SubSection "Display"
>     			Depth 24
>     			Virtual 3000 2000

..your graphics iron supports this big a picture?
Chk your X log for mention of "buffer", "vram" etc
between the modelines and the acceleration setup. 

>   		EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> 
> When starting gdm3 I only get a black screen with the GNOME cursor
> but nothing more. And I can't jump to a tty so I have to force a
> shutdown. So, unless I have a way to generate a workable "xorg.conf"
> file, I cannot try :-)
> 
> ¹ Error: "(...) Number of created screens does not match number of 
> detected devices. Configuration failed. Server terminated with error
> (2). Closing log file."
> 
> Greetings,
> 


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