Installer screen too big for 7" EEEpc

[Tony Pursell]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I have just installed the 9.04 Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my EEEPC with a 7" screen. The installer screens are too big for it so the action buttons are off the bottom of the screens with no way to make them visible. I just had to guess that the Next or OK button had focus then hit Return.

[rjdaggett (rjdaggett)]

This still and issue after install. The bottom of movie player and many other programs are cut-off. I was able to install eeepc tray but this broke my Fn key bindings. The intel driver utility allowed for scrolling as a solution, can't this be auto configured in xorg.conf at startup?

[Tony Pursell (ajpursell)]

This problem it improved in Lucid where the installer uses a smaller window. However it still remains a problem with the partitioning dialogue. There are no buttons at the bottom of the window of this dialogue.

[andypiper (andypiperuk)]

This issue has returned in Natty (alpha 3). I attempted to install on an Acer Aspire One 110 (8.9" screen capable of 1024x600) and the installer dialogs are just too large for the screen. In addition, the menubar which would allow me to connect to a wifi network during install is off the screen. I will attach some photos to this post to demonstrate.

[Sebastian Lai (user17)]

Has there been any update whatsoever? The problem appears to persist with (X)Ubuntu 12.04. :(

[Tony Pursell (ajpursell)]

I recently installed Lubuntu 12.04 on the EEEPC I had when I reported this back in 2009. I had to use the Alternate install because of the small amount of disk space available (4GB SSD) and had no problems with the dialogues.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This appears to either be a bug in the video driver or a hardware defect rather than anything to do with unity. Can you attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

[Tony Pursell (ajpursell)]

Phillip

Sorry, I don't see this as a video driver or a hardware defect. Its is just poor design, because no-one thinks about small screen sizes.

Anyway, I no longer have an interest in this bug,

Tony

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

It has nothing to do with design; it is a hardware or driver issue since several scan lines are not actually being displayed on the screen.

[Tony Pursell (ajpursell)]

Modal dialogue boxes can be designed in such a way that they cannot be displayed in their entirety of certain sizes of screen. Normally by holding down Alt you can hold down the left mouse button and drag them up the screen. (I always have to do this for the Software Updater on my newer EEEPC with a 10 inch screen, for instance). Unfortunately, this was not available in the ubiquity installer at the time I reported this bug. I have not had to do a recent install on a small screen recently, so I do not know if it is still a problem.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

The problem depicted in the screen shot isn't a dialog box that is too large for the screen, but rather the actual top of the screen where the top bar is cut off.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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