Screen resolution resize to 640x480 problems

[Timothy Fowler]

Binary package hint: nvidia-settings

Since my upgrade to Jaunty (9.04) from Intrepid (8.10), resizing the screen resolution to 640x480 (or smaller) loses track of some of the open windows in my task bar. However, the processes for these windows are still running. When I go back to 1280x800, the open windows are still missing and the processes are still running. Resizing to 1024x768 works fine and doesn't lose the windows. Everything worked fine in Intrepid.

This is on a Dell Inspiron 1420 with an Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS (Installed: 180.25-0ubuntu1).

The reason I want to resize is to play starcraft in virtualbox and it needs 640x480 for this (there were bugs when I tried to use wine). virtualbox still runs fine but i lose the windows and need to restart it.

Also, the menu and quick links don't work properly in 640x480 because my menus bar is too crowded (i.e. clicking on the menus launches one of the quick links).

Tim

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi tfowler-gmail,

Thanks for including an image to demonstrate the issue. Could you also please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Timothy Fowler (tfowler)]

Here is my lscpi -vnn:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f3]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2a01] (rev 0c)
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
 Memory behind bridge: fa000000-feafffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000efffffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f3]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
 I/O ports at 6f20 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f3]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
 I/O ports at 6f00 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f3]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
 Memory at fed1c400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f3]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
 Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02)
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 02)
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=0
 Memory behind bridge: f9f00000-f9ffffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 02)
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=0d, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
 Memory behind bridge: f9c00000-f9efffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f01fffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:2849] (rev 02)
 Flags: bus master, fast devse...

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