Bug 586117

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* output of the dmesg command,
* system log (/var/log/messages), and
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Created attachment 410127 [details]
dmesg

The dmesg was run after a fresh Desktop install, firstboot, and GUI login.

Created attachment 410128 [details]
/var/log/messages

Created attachment 410130 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Created attachment 410131 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.9.log

No /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists.

*** Bug 587804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

system-config-display is used by the video test of Red Hat's v7 hardware certification test suite to produce a configuration file for testing.   If this isn't included in RHEL6, we need a suggestion for replacing it.

This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker
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(In reply to comment #10)
> system-config-display is used by the video test of Red Hat's v7 hardware
> certification test suite to produce a configuration file for testing.   If this
> isn't included in RHEL6, we need a suggestion for replacing it.

Replace it with nothing.  The X server should be able to come up with a reasonable configuration on its own now.

The operative word is "should".  In the cases where it does not, the user is left without a tool to gracefully manage the configuration.  I will happily work around it by rolling my own system-config-display from a Fedora SRPM, but this does not seem be the optimal solution for the distribution.

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This request was erroneously denied for the current release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.  The error has been fixed and this request has been
re-proposed for the current release.

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

This request was erroneously denied for the current release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  The error has been fixed and this
request has been re-proposed for the current release.

There is still no system-config-display in 6.1.

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Practical usage case...  Configuring the display for GDM so that an attached monitor/projector is mirrored and not xinerama/spanned by default.

(In reply to comment #25)
> Practical usage case...  Configuring the display for GDM so that an attached
> monitor/projector is mirrored and not xinerama/spanned by default.

Hacky workaround...

1. Change gdm's login shell from /sbin/nologin to /bin/bash
2. Set some password for gdm
3. Log into GDM as user gdm (sick, hehe)
4. Run System Preferences -> Display tool to setup mirroring
5. Log out
6. Set gdm's login shell back to /sbin/nologin

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the
current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is
not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately
unable to address this request at this time.  It has been proposed for the next
release. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current
release, please ask your support representative.

system-config-display is not coming back, full stop.

What we _can_ do, when EDID fetch fails, is to make a more complete list of modes available and simply default to something conservative.  gnome-display-properties will then allow you to set the desired resolution at runtime.  (Pushing that preference into gdm's configuration is a gnome problem.)

Fixing this in the general case requires fixing both the kernel (for the KMS drivers) and the individual drivers (for everything else).  Reassigning this bug to the kernel since KMS is the preferred support path.  Please clone this bug for any non-KMS-enabled drivers that also need this enhancement.

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
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propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This request was erroneously removed from consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, which is currently under development.  This request will be evaluated for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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