[SOLVED] netbook cannot use larger monitor

[Ron Lusk]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Under Maverick, I could connect my Acer (AOA150) netbook (1024x600) to a 1024x768 monitor and use gnome-display-properties to turn the netbook screen off and use the monitor at full resolution. With Natty Alpha 3, the same procedure gives me what appears to be a 1024x600 image of the screen (desktop, decorations, background apps), pinned to the bottom of the screen, leaving the top 1/4 of the monitor blank. However, the visuals that are displayed only appear to respond...in part...to mouse clicks on the part of the screen they should appear at. For example, the Monitors applet displays a visual change when I click on a blank spot about 2 inches above it, but does not respond when clicked on directory.

This worked under both metacity and mutter using Maverick. During installation (or just after the first boot) (with both monitors running) I received a message saying that there was not enough memory for Compiz to do something, but I cannot remember the exact text.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 10 12:38:39 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-display-properties
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-10 (0 days ago)

[Ron Lusk (luskwater)]

Seems to be solved. Am now running with full-screen of the larger monitor in use. I'm not sure what action to take on this to mark it solved, however, so any advice or pointers would be appreciated.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can just set the status to invalid, doing that for you now