PCLOS Lite on an EeePC: Screen size.(SOLVED)

[BJF]

I have installed Lite (aka Iced-Latte) onto an SD card to run on a 701 4G Eeep, and find that so far with a deal of fiddling, I can't get the standard log-in window to show the bottom half above the bottom margin of the screen. I have logged in blind many times and experimented with setting the screen as best I know how in >Configure to the native 800x480 size and others but nothing has changed that Log-in window size or position. It makes hard shutdowns mandatory because that bit is waaaay below the horizon and inaccessable. Please, what am I missing?

Thanks,
John.

[Hootiegibbon]

Hi John

When you use Configure your computer > hardawre >graphical server  > make sure you change both te screen and teh resolution to match, it should then change the gdm screen also (works on my acerone = 1024x600)

Jase

[BJF]

Jase: No cigar. There isn't a direct equivalent for 800x480 in the resolution and your Acer figures don't work. I've been wildcatting looking for factors of the screen size but none of them change the log-in, only the desktop. Can I alter a .conf file manually? Can I reposition the log-in? What I fear is that if I don't nail the display size, app's will display off screen too, and the Alt+Left Mouse+scratchpad doesn't work yet to drag stuff up the screen because I haven't done Tex's mods to make it so. Can we fix it??

[pags]

Jase: No cigar. There isn't a direct equivalent for 800x480 in the resolution and your Acer figures don't work. I've been wildcatting looking for factors of the screen size but none of them change the log-in, only the desktop. Can I alter a .conf file manually? Can I reposition the log-in? What I fear is that if I don't nail the display size, app's will display off screen too, and the Alt+Left Mouse+scratchpad doesn't work yet to drag stuff up the screen because I haven't done Tex's mods to make it so. Can we fix it??

Under "Monitor", select Flat Panel 800x480


Then, set your Resolution to match...

[BJF]

pags: I understand the process and have applied it vigorously, but there isn't an 800x 480 resolution setting and anything near that makes no difference. Eeep's are apparently odd beasts in the display department and difficulties are on record around this. BTW, both Openbox and LXDE display correctly OOTB if given the 800x600 setting.
Progress with Lite will be around dividing 800 by 480, and applying that result to higher available settings that yield the same Width/Height ratio, then maybe playing with icon display sizes?

Thanks.

[Yankee]

I think it is the specific program being used that's formatted somehow
and cannot fit in the smaller screens.  For example, using Catfish it works
right in the smaller screen, but Searchmonkey doesn't, have to Alt-Mouse
the screen up and down a bit.   Sure if you had a bigger screen than the
EeePC provides any program would appear 100% then. 

From time to time a program will do that with any PCL distro until you
find the right screen setting.  A login screen should never do that.
It might just be Latte doing it.  Can you adjust font size downward ?

xrandr -s 0     should always get you to the highest screen performance.

My EeePC works fine but I haven't tried Iced Latte yet.

[Hootiegibbon]

BJF,

Which graphics card is on that eeepc?

lspci |grep -i vga

and which xserver is in use?

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf |grep Driver

Should tell you

Jase

[BJF]

Jase:

Graphics card; Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/910GML Express Graphics Controller.

Driver; "intel"

[Yankee]

xrandr -q

run the above in terminal, copy here also the output

info that is very helpful for a manual adjustment

[BJF]

Screen 0:Minimum 320x200, current 640x480, maximum 4096x4096
LVDS1 connected 640x480+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mmx0mm
640x480 59.9*


...and references to VGA1 and TV1 being disconnected follow.

I notice too that I can't highlight and right-click copy from terminal. Right-click just unhighlights text. Still have to do the scratchpad corrections though. That might fix it.

Thanks.

[Yankee]

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[user@localhost ~]$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
LVDS1 connected 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1024x600       59.5*+
   800x600        60.3     56.2 
   640x480        59.9 
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)


Mine is above, same card, highest option is 1024x600, but I don't see it listed
for your screen.   Try selecting that size manually in the PCL Control
Center under other choices for screen setting.

[BJF]

Ferdes: No different except that the view got as wide as the screen. but the log and shut-down remains unchanged.
Just a thought: Should I move away from IceWM to fix it? Install a task- ? I like Ice, but would be talked out of it if it fixed that screen. How could I reposition that log-in box on the screen? Could a "Clever person" write a different boot screen configuration for us Eeep 701 users, to shift it?

[Hootiegibbon]

Ferdes: No different except that the view got as wide as the screen. but the log and shut-down remains unchanged.
Just a thought: Should I move away from IceWM to fix it? Install a task- ? I like Ice, but would be talked out of it if it fixed that screen. How could I reposition that log-in box on the screen? Could a "Clever person" write a different boot screen configuration for us Eeep 701 users, to shift it?

BJF,

Try installing another GDM theme, then in a terminal type gdmsetup and choose teh local tab, and choose a different theme.

Jase

[Yankee]

Ferdes: No different except that the view got as wide as the screen. but the log and shut-down remains unchanged.
Just a thought: Should I move away from IceWM to fix it? Install a task- ? I like Ice, but would be talked out of it if it fixed that screen. How could I reposition that log-in box on the screen? Could a "Clever person" write a different boot screen configuration for us Eeep 701 users, to shift it?

I think the minimum size for that screen must be 800x600, so your 640x480
screen is too small.   Ask HootieG if any of the other Window Managers
have a 640x480 screen.   do-vesa in Synaptic might help but I think again
that the 800x600 screen would be needed again, would be the same problem.
I'd try do-vesa once just to see what happens, run do-vesa in terminal and
reboot.   To return to regular driver use the PCL Control Center.   That's how
that would work.

If you hold down Alt, then hold down the left  mouse key the screen should be
movable.

[BJF]

If you hold down Alt, then hold down the left  mouse key the screen should be movable.

No. No movement possible.

I'll wait for Hootie to come along with further advice about what might work. But thank you for your assistance.

John.