Bug 466629
| Summary: | gnome-display-properties multihead changes cause ATI problems | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer> |
| Component: | control-center | Assignee: | Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | bnocera, control-center-maint, kem, rstrode |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-11-10 07:37:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 465130 | ||
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Created attachment 320114 [details]
monitors.xml resulting from the working steps
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xrandr output resulting from the workign steps
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monitors.xml resulting from the first half of the non-working steps
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xrandr output resulting from the first half of the non-working steps
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monitors.xml resulting from the final half of the non-working steps
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xrandr output resulting from the final half of the non-working steps
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping |
Description of problem: This is a bit of a weird issue. I'm using an ATI video card with dual outputs. Certain use patterns of gnome-display-properties cause things to break. First, I can produce the desired results by following these steps: 1. run gnome-display-properties 2. uncheck "Mirror Screens" 3. move the blue screen icon to the right and click Apply. By following those steps, I move the DVI-0 output to the right, producing a wide multihead desktop. However, if I don't know that I'm supposed to do that (perhaps because the outputs aren't labelled in g-d-p) I might follow these steps instead: 1. run gnome-display-properties 2. uncheck "Mirror Screens" 3. move the blue screen icon to the left and click Apply. - this makes the DVI-0 output the "left" desktop area. - DVI-0 is now represented by a green icon instead of its original blue, which is odd. - I actually wanted the DVI-0 output to be the right area of the desktop. I figure out that the left desktop area is on the right physical monitor, so I want to move the left monitor icon to the right, in order that it will display the right desktop area. 4. move the green icon (DVI-0, displaying the left desktop area) to the right of the blue icon. - this makes the DVI-0 the "right" monitor. It is represented by the a blue icon again. - both physical displays are mirrored, with the contents that should be on the DVI-0 output Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.24.0.1-7.fc10.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-25.fc10.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.2-2.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Actual results: The physical displays are mirrored, even though they're configured to be a wide multihead desktop.