Partial screen with x.org 6.8 compiled with source from cvs

[James Blanford]

On  6 Nov, Andras Lorincz wrote:
> I am having sarge installed and took these steps to compile and
> install X.org:
> 
>  - created directory /usr/src/build
>  - in build made lndir ../xc
>  - edited xc/config/cf/host.def and added these line at the end:
>         #define ProjectRoot /opt/Xorg-6.7.99.1
>         #define NothingOutsideProjectRoot YES
>         #define DefaultGcc2i386Opt -O0 -g
>         #define HasFreetype2 YES
>         #define HasFontconfig YES
>  - deleted the directory /usr/X11R6
>  - mkdir /opt/Xorg-6.8
>  - ln -s /opt/Xorg-6.8/ /usr/X11R6/
>  - make World
>  - make install
>  - in xorg.conf file made these changes as compared to XF86Config-4
>  file:
> 
>         Section "InputDevice"
>             Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>             Driver      "Keyboard"
> 
>        to
> 
>        Section "InputDevice"
>             Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>             Driver      "kbd"
> 
> and added:
> 
>         Section "Extensions"
>                 Option  "Composite"     "Enable"
>         EndSection
> 
> Aftyer all this launched "/etc/init.d/gdm start". The server starts
> but the desktop occupies just part of the screen, so the desktop
> extends from the upper left corner of the monitor to some point in the
> middle of the monitor. So I can see everything from the desktop but
> everything is smaller. Imagine something like this:
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> |                          |                    |
> |                          |                    |
> |                          |                    |
> |---------------------|                    |
> |                                               |
> |                                               |
> ---------------------------------------|
> 
> The outer rectangle is the monitor and and the inner is my desktop.
> What should I do?
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If you have a Radeon, check out bug #1559, especially the patch attached
to comment #29.

BTW, is there some reason, why that patch hasn't been put into cvs?
Lot's of people have this problem.  The patch apparently doesn't fix
everything, but it helps a lot of people.

     -  Jim