irate.turtle
April 16th, 2009, 11:15 PM
I have a dell studio 15 laptop with 8.04
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My problem is that the after startup the desktop area is 2560 x 800 while my laptop monitor is only showing the 1280 x 800 of it.
Basically while ubuntu is showing a wide desktop area, my laptop screen is only showing the left half of it.
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The problem goes away if I refresh the resolution from within the ATI Catalyst Control Center (ATI-CCC) , i.e., the desktop area becomes 1280 x 800. But after restart system it becomes 2560 x 800 again.
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Earlier I had attached an LCD monitor to the laptop and used ATI-CCC to setup dual monitor. So I think somewhere the settings have stuck onto that and thus the display still publishes material for the LCD screen even though it is not there.
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I tried to search any similar problem posted. This post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=248755) mentioned resolution issues which get reset with each startup. It suggests changing resolution value in /desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/ but when I open gconf editor there is no key 'screen' within /desktop/gnome
How to fix this? Till now I didn't have any major problems but now I am using other sessions and only half the error message gets displayed on my laptop screen and rest remains hidden from view.
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My problem is that the after startup the desktop area is 2560 x 800 while my laptop monitor is only showing the 1280 x 800 of it.
Basically while ubuntu is showing a wide desktop area, my laptop screen is only showing the left half of it.
---
The problem goes away if I refresh the resolution from within the ATI Catalyst Control Center (ATI-CCC) , i.e., the desktop area becomes 1280 x 800. But after restart system it becomes 2560 x 800 again.
---
Earlier I had attached an LCD monitor to the laptop and used ATI-CCC to setup dual monitor. So I think somewhere the settings have stuck onto that and thus the display still publishes material for the LCD screen even though it is not there.
---
I tried to search any similar problem posted. This post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=248755) mentioned resolution issues which get reset with each startup. It suggests changing resolution value in /desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/ but when I open gconf editor there is no key 'screen' within /desktop/gnome
How to fix this? Till now I didn't have any major problems but now I am using other sessions and only half the error message gets displayed on my laptop screen and rest remains hidden from view.