Screen Offset

My screen is offset slightly down. Part of my lower toolbar appears cutoff. This doesn't happen in windows or from any sort of command line, which leads me to believe it has something to do with Xorg. Here is a picture:



you can see in the first one there is a good 1/8" of blank area, the second photo you can see its run off the bottom.

I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and here is my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
        DisplaySize     195 113
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        SubSection      "Display"
                Viewport        0 0
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1024x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        Option          "NoDDC"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SHMConfig"     "true"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "0"
        Option          "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1"
        Option          "EmulateTwoFingerMinW"  "7"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Server Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Keyboard"      "Core Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"    "Core Pointer"
EndSection

I've added a bunch of stuff in there and it hasn't helped. Any suggestions?

 

also, if i create a usb startup disk with 8.10 on it, it works fine. i have the same driver and config, but i get the slight offset. the only big difference i noticed is when the usb version is running, xrandr says its at 60Hz and my install version says 58Hz. also the usb version loads a crapload of drivers that mine isnt.

 

xorg has no idea what the display is. its really bizzare.

 

so it appears it was the xserver-xorg-video-intel module. the 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.3 version. I reinstalled everything and I noticed that it was okay. then I did the updates in groups, isolating the kernel and xorg updates on their own. then when i noticed the xorg update broke it i started with the intel driver, rolling back to the last version and that did it. very strange. guess i'll file a bug report.

 

Im having the exact same problem im still pretty new to linux and dont completely understand how you fixed it could you please post how you do it step by step

 

so you need to open synaptic package manager. its under System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manger. Click the Search icon (don't use the quick search, it never works right for me). You will get this:


in that box you will enter "xserver-xorg-video-intel" which will give you this output:


select the xserver-xorg-video-intel package (not the xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg one) and then click Package -> Force Version:


you will get a dialog like below, select the previous version, 2:2.4-1-1ubuntu10 (intrepid), not 2:2.4-1-1ubuntu10.3 (intrepid-updates):


click "Force Version" then you will have to click the "Apply", which will downgrade the package. Lastly you need to lock the version in, under Packages check the "Lock Version" box. This will keep your update manager from telling you that you need to update that package all the time.


good luck!

 

thanks i appreciate it worked like a charm. now i have a new problem i shut the lid on my aa1 to put it in suspend came back about an hour later and it turned out that it just froze instead of suspending. No big deal but now my screen flickers out of nowhere. I have the 3309 bios I dont know what could have caused it. any ideas?

*update - ok i dont know what happened but i turned off the aspire for a while and turned it back on and now its ok. It was rater warm after it froze so i think it may have been to hot for some reason.