Bug 216500
| Summary: | External Monitor gives non-naitive screen resolution. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Tom Kincaid <tkincaid> |
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | Adam Jackson <ajax> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | ajax, bnocera, rstrode |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Regression |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-12-08 16:44:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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As this is critical for laptop use - especially at Red Hat. PM ACK The bug as written isn't workable. I've discussed the multihead strategies and support status with rousseau and jneedle. As they find issues they will open individual bugs for them. In particular, the semantics you really want here are which monitor among many to give preferential treatment to, which is not the same thing as monitor/projector, so exposing that as the UI is completely the wrong thing to do. Marking as NOTABUG, for lack of INVALID status. |
Description of problem: I have a T41 system, a docking station and an external DELL Monitor. When I boot in this configuration, the external monitor does not get the naitve screen resolution and things large and fuzzy. Also: System -> Preferences -> Screen resolution only had a few low resolution choices. Far fewer than the resolution choices that I had in RHEL 4.4. I had Ajax come over and take a look. His explaination, which I am not going to do justice to was that we optimized for the external device being a projector for RHEL 5. He had me put the following in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to work around the problem. Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" Option "MonitorLayout" "NONE,CRT" # This being the key line. Unfortunately, this means that in order for me to boot my laptop with out an external monitor, I need to comment out the following line: Option "MonitorLayout" "NONE,CRT" # This being the key line. I am not sure what the right solution is here but I don't think the current situation is acceptale for GA. One thought I had was to have a menu pick along the lines of: Choice 1: Optimize desktop for external desktop monitor Choice 2: Optimize desktop for external projector monitor. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: