Way to go! No, I had those dashes a few times in a different install (Fedora) on an Intel COMPAQ pc laptop but very rarely & just restarted and it went away-
have you tried restarting? Does it continue to be a problem? Ray On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Matthew <mr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I did this and indeed it corrects it but i get a few flashing white > dashes on the screen. Is this on yours too? > > -- > [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in X.Org X server: In Progress > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > On my PPC G5 iMac 20" built-in display with Hardy-Alpha 4, using the > standard NV driver, the resolution of 1680x1050 is detected correctly but is > shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch, which continues back to the left > hand side. In other words, the trash can and quit icons are mostly cut off > on the right, and appear on the left! > > Unfortunately, the mouse won't go past a boundary on the left hand side to > access them, even if I did want to live with the display shifted like this. > This issue first appeared for me in Gutsy as well, and nothing seems to be > able to move the display back to the left a little. I have tried xrandr, > xvidtune, custom modelines, etc. Only Feisty and below have the 1680x1050 > screen centered properly. With an Imac, there are no manual screen movement > adjustments that can be made. It feels as though something is locking out > any attempt to center the screen, since the resolution seems correct. > > Interestingly enough, if I take a screen-shot and view it, the screen-shot > looks perfect, but isn't centered properly in real life. I've tried the > usual dkpg-reconfigure routines, but it's not that the resolution is > incorrect, it is just that the screen want to dive over to the right and > wrap back to the left.... > > [lspci] > 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34M > [GeForce FX Go5200] [10de:0329] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0010] > > -- [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
