# Display off center **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Hardware\ **Created:** [May 7, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945 "2013-05-07T01:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@bcarl](https://forums.suse.com/u/bcarl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/1 "2013-05-07T01:28:26Z")
I installed SLES 11.2 on a Dell Latitude laptop and the display is off center. Approx 7% of the right side is cut and showing on the left side. I can slide mouse all the way to the right and the cursor pops over to the left and continues like it’s in dual display mode. This problem doesn’t happen in failsafe mode however the screen is stretched. The graphics card is on-board Intel Ivybridge M GT2. The installer chose the monitor as “LGD 3HT47 140WH4 LCD” and set the resolution to 1366x768 WXGA (it’s a 14" display). I’ve tried several different resolutions and monitor types including Dell but can’t get it working. Any help would be much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Jim1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/jim1/32/9120_2.png) [@Jim1](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jim1)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/2 "2013-05-07T02:41:00Z")
On Mon, 06 May 2013 22:34:02 +0000, bcarl wrote: [color=blue] > I installed SLES 11.2 on a Dell Latitude laptop and the display is off > center. Approx 7% of the right side is cut and showing on the left side. > I can slide mouse all the way to the right and the cursor pops over to > the left and continues like it’s in dual display mode. This problem > doesn’t happen in failsafe mode however the screen is stretched.[/color] When you’re at the grub menu, try adding the parameter “nomodeset” and see if that helps. Generally, though, I’d either look at putting SLED on a laptop, or openSUSE. ## Jim Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1, CLA10, CLP10 Novell/SUSE/NetIQ Knowledge Partner ---
**Author:** ![bcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@bcarl](https://forums.suse.com/u/bcarl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/3 "2013-05-07T03:07:39Z")
Jim, I tried adding nomodeset however it only boots to cmd login. I’ll look into SLED… Thanks- ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 4:08am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/4 "2013-05-07T04:08:57Z")
> [@](#): > > On Mon 06 May 2013 10:34:02 PM CDT, bcarl wrote: > > I installed SLES 11.2 on a Dell Latitude laptop and the display is off > center. Approx 7% of the right side is cut and showing on the left side. > I can slide mouse all the way to the right and the cursor pops over to > the left and continues like it’s in dual display mode. This problem > doesn’t happen in failsafe mode however the screen is stretched. > > The graphics card is on-board Intel Ivybridge M GT2. The installer > chose the monitor as “LGD 3HT47 140WH4 LCD” and set the resolution to > 1366x768 WXGA (it’s a 14" display). I’ve tried several different > resolutions and monitor types including Dell but can’t get it working. > > Any help would be much appreciated. Hi If you drop to runlevel 3 and the run sax2 -r to create a new xorg.conf file, during the setup you can adjust the screen position for you display. – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 3:37, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.08 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale ---
**Author:** ![bcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@bcarl](https://forums.suse.com/u/bcarl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/5 "2013-05-07T05:42:59Z")
Hello- I tried sax2 -r in runlevel 3 but when I select to configure/test, the size and position arrows don’t do anything. Thanks- ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/6 "2013-05-07T06:36:26Z")
> [@](#): > > On Tue 07 May 2013 02:44:01 AM CDT, bcarl wrote: > > Hello- > I tried sax2 -r in runlevel 3 but when I select to configure/test, the > size and position arrows don’t do anything. > > Thanks- Hi Strange indeed, What is the expected resolution for the system? What output do you get from the command; ```auto xrandr ``` – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.4-desktop up 0:55, 4 users, load average: 0.31, 0.16, 0.10 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Arrandale ---
**Author:** ![bcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@bcarl](https://forums.suse.com/u/bcarl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/7 "2013-05-07T19:23:07Z")
Hello, The expected resolution is 1366x768. Here’s the output from xrandr. surf:~ # xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm 1366x768 60.0\*+ 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 59.9 VGA1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1920x1080 60.0 + 1600x1200 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 1440x900 59.9 1280x960 60.0 1280x800 59.8 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 60.0 HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Thanks for your help ---
**Author:** ![Dean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dean](https://forums.suse.com/u/Dean)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/8 "2013-05-10T04:47:27Z")
I recall reading about users experiencing this ‘display offset’ issue with certain graphics hardware and kernel driver regressions some time back. Can you tell us which chipset and driver you’re using? ```auto /sbin/lspci -nnk ``` IIRC, there was an intel bug whereby “1366x768” was an issue with some intel hardware, (and if I’m not mistaken, had something to do with 1366 not being divisible by 8)… but it was some time ago. Anyway, here’s an openSUSE bug report that may be relevant to your situation [https://bugzilla.novell.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=782845](https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782845) You may need to file a bug report for this. ---
**Author:** ![bcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@bcarl](https://forums.suse.com/u/bcarl)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/9 "2013-05-10T18:59:18Z")
Here’s the output from lspci surf:~ # /sbin/lspci -nnk 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09) Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel Kernel modules: intel-agp 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) Kernel driver in use: xhci\_hcd Kernel modules: xhci-hcd 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04) Kernel driver in use: ehci\_hcd Kernel modules: ehci-hcd 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04) Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1e12] (rev c4) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1e14] (rev c4) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:1e16] (rev c4) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:1e1a] (rev c4) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1c.6 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 7 [8086:1e1c] (rev c4) Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1e26] (rev 04) Kernel driver in use: ehci\_hcd Kernel modules: ehci-hcd 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Panther Point LPC Controller [8086:1e57] (rev 04) Kernel modules: iTCO\_wdt 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Panther Point 6 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:1e03] (rev 04) Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Panther Point SMBus Controller [8086:1e22] (rev 04) Kernel driver in use: i801\_smbus Kernel modules: i2c-i801 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01) 0b:00.0 SD Host controller [0805]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:8221] (rev 05) Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci Kernel modules: sdhci-pci 0c:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1681] (rev 10) Kernel driver in use: tg3 Kernel modules: tg3 ---
**Author:** ![Dean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dean](https://forums.suse.com/u/Dean)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/10 "2013-05-11T00:53:18Z")
Okay, the relevant info (concerning your grahics chipset) is here: `00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) Kernel driver in use: i915` This [linux mint thread](http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=191&t=112234) reports the same issue (same Intel graphics chipset). > [@](#): > > Out of the box, either post-install or when running from LMDE 201204 livedvd, both console and X screens are offset considerably to the right, causing the screen to wrap around the left side. The wrong xoffset-ing (to the right) happens as soon as i915 module takes over, and so the problem appears soon as the framebuffer kicks in, so definitely before X kicks in. They also mention [QUOTE]Editing /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf and changing modeset=1 to modeset=0 and rebooting fixes this issue, and then the console, followed by the display-manager shows properly (centered) on the screen. But the virtual consoles are gone!! Meaning, if I try to switch to consoles with Shift+F# keys (1 to 6), I am stuck at a greyish background, kind of like the color of the background of the display-manager (mdm in the case of LMDE). For that, I had to upgrade to liquorix kernel 3.4.0-10, and the wrong x-offsetting issue with the i915 module loaded was resolved, and I no longer had to disable modeset.[/QUOTE] So, this is really a kernel issue, and it appears it’s been fixed with a later kernel. Maybe one of the updates or service packs fixed it perhaps? However, I’m not familiar with SLED/SLES products, and the possibility of upgrading kernels with them. A bug report should be submitted IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![bcarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@bcarl](https://forums.suse.com/u/bcarl)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/11 "2013-05-11T06:23:50Z")
Deano, Thanks for putting me on the right path to fixing this!! I installed all the recommended patches and now the display is perfect. Thanks again for your help ---
**Author:** ![Dean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Dean](https://forums.suse.com/u/Dean)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/display-off-center/23945/12 "2013-05-11T08:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=bcarl;13579]Deano, Thanks for putting me on the right path to fixing this!! I installed all the recommended patches and now the display is perfect. Thanks again for your help[/QUOTE] Thanks for the update. I’m glad the issue has been resolved.