Problems with Driver Station

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Dave_4539

Nope... I followed directions from usfirst.org under frc...programming...driver station... so I will try those directions and see if that works... thanks!

You got to the ScreenSteps site okay, but it doesn't look like you went through the Getting Started with the 2015 Control System section. The Installing the FRC 2015 Update Suite (All Languages) is where it steps you through putting the software in the right place.

[Dave_4539]

Well I figured it out. It was just a National Instrument Update that hadn't been done. But now, when I log in as driver, the dashboard doesn't pop up like it has in the past. Its not a huge deal to us, but there is like two windows and the resolution is huge, and we can't see them both at one time. Is there some setting we can change in order to see everything?

[Joe Ross]

Are you using the floating or docked window mode? In docked, it should scale to the resolution.

[Mark McLeod]

Is this on a Classmate or another laptop?

Did you set the task bar to Auto Hide and make more room on the screen?

Do the two windows have frames?

[Dave_4539]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Is this on a Classmate or another laptop?

Did you set the task bar to Auto Hide and make more room on the screen?

Do the two windows have frames?

Yeah, I auto-hid the task bar but it still doesn't snap to the correct resolution.

[Alan Anderson]

If you don't answer the questions we're asking, we can't do a good job of advising you further. To summarize what we still want to know:

Are you using the "floating" or "docked" window mode? If you don't know what that means, just tell us whether or not the windows have title bars.

Is this a Classmate laptop? If you don't know what that means, just tell us what brand of computer you are using.

[Dave_4539]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

If you don't answer the questions we're asking, we can't do a good job of advising you further. To summarize what we still want to know:

Are you using the "floating" or "docked" window mode? If you don't know what that means, just tell us whether or not the windows have title bars.

Is this a Classmate laptop? If you don't know what that means, just tell us what brand of computer you are using.

It is a classmate laptop, when i open the frc driver station icon on the desktop, it splits it into two windows, both of which are floating, and extending past the screen so I cant see all of it. I can only dock one of the windows to the top, making it impossible to see the other window...

[Mark McLeod]

Look for this on the Driver Station and click it.

[Alan Anderson]

Are the Driver Station windows too wide for the screen? That's a video driver issue on the E12 Classmate image. You need to be able to set the screen resolution to more than 800x600 in order for everything to fit.

I don't want to post a link to something if it's not going to help your problem. Let me know whether you're using an E12 and whether the screen width is the issue, and if so I'll point you to something which ought to help.