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@xxxxxxxxxxx > > 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
