From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2BAB1581FB for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4178BE2A76; Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (mail.muc.de [193.149.48.3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4F56E2A6A for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31575 invoked by uid 3782); 25 Aug 2024 21:12:04 +0200 Received: from muc.de (p4fe152fc.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.82.252]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:12:04 +0200 Received: (qmail 24647 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Aug 2024 19:12:03 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:12:03 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New machine: Contents of display are offset around 2 inches from the left hand side. Message-ID: References: <2124123.KlZ2vcFHjT@rogueboard> <661a0e11-cc21-1e57-568d-a299b644934e@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <661a0e11-cc21-1e57-568d-a299b644934e@gmail.com> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: b07647bb-aa35-49cf-ab29-b5d9291fec7d X-Archives-Hash: d53a25c7e43f958c44928edf96dac39e Hello, Dale On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 13:28:14 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Somehow I don't think that will work (which doesn't mean I won't try it). > > There is something in the motherboard which is throwing off the desired > > resolution by those extra 192 horizontal pixels, even in the BIOS. > Do you have x11-apps/xrandr installed?  If you do, see what this says.  I didn't, but I do now. After trying (and failing) to run it on the console, I tried in X-Windows (the display of which is miserably unstable at the moment). > xrandr --listmonitors > This is mine: > root@Gentoo-1 / # xrandr --listmonitors > Monitors: 3 >  0: +*DP-2 1920/698x1080/393+0+1080  DP-2 >  1: +DP-1 1920/698x1080/393+0+0  DP-1 >  2: +DP-7 1920/1150x1080/650+1920+1080  DP-7 > root@Gentoo-1 / # That's one tremendous monitor you've got on DP-7. :-) I've got just the one monitor. I got back: 0: +*HDMI-A-0 1920/521x1080/293+0+0 HDMI-A-0 > DP-2 is my primary display and if you have only one monitor, should be > the only line for you but might be DP-1 instead.  Micheal might can > explain this better, or even more correctly, but I think the important > part for this is where mine says +0+.  I think, just think, if yours > says something like +192+ instead of 0, that might be a clue.  If it > says 0 as it should, then this may be the wrong track to look down.  > What I'm wondering, is the monitor set to show a blank, or black, > section on that side for some reason.  This could very well not be the > case tho.  If it shows correctly like mine does, then ignore this and > know that isn't causing the problem at least.  No, I've got the +0+, too. > This is a odd problem.  I don't think I ever saw this even during the > old CRT days.  o_O I'm convinced this isn't a problem in Linux. It's something having got wedged in the motherboard's firmware, seeing as how the blank strip appears even when going into the BIOS. I suspect I'm going to have to reinitialise the CMOS ram, which I really don't want to do, though Michael doesn't think that's the problem. We'll see. > Dale > :-)  :-)  -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).