| Summary: | GDM login window is not visible when external display is attached | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Ben Levenson <benl> | ||||
| Component: | gdm | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2017-12-06 10:30:30 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.
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.
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Created attachment 505771 [details] xorg.log Description of problem: The GDM login window is not visible when external display is attached GDM is up and running, but the login window is not centered on the active display. I can login after I undock/disconnect the external display -- the GDM login window re-centers on the laptop display. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.32-131.4.1.el6.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.7-29.el6.i686 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.14.0-1.el6.i686 gdm-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot laptop in runlevel 5 with external display (direct connect or via docking station) 2. Local display shows the gdm background, but the login window is not visible 3. External display is powered on, but shows nothing Actual results: no login window Expected results: login window Additional info: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 215a Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28 Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 1800 [size=8] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 ----- Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192 LVDS1 connected 1280x800+1280+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 261mm x 163mm 1280x800 60.0*+ 59.8 59.9 50.0 1280x768 59.9 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 848x480 60.0 640x480 59.9 VGA1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.1 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 60.0 720x400 70.1 HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)