Bug 716490

Summary: [Eaglelake] Cursor starts in an unusual position at login screen
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James <james>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 17CC: mcepl, rstrode, xgl-maint
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/var/log/messages from an Intel machine
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/var/log/messages from a nVidia machine
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Xorg log from an Intel machine
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Xorg log from an nVidia machine none

Description James 2011-06-24 16:05:04 UTC 
Description of problem:
Rather than starting in the centre of the screen,

 - On Intel hardware, the cursor appears around 1/4 of the way in from
   the right, and 1/4 of the way up from the bottom of the screen.

 - On ATI and nVidia, it appears in the top-left-hand corner.

Filing under X server, but might be GDM; reassign as appropriate.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.0.4-1.fc15.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.2-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.
Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-12 20:14:13 UTC 
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),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log), and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

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.
Comment 2 James 2011-07-13 10:22:18 UTC 
Created attachment 512623 [details]
/var/log/messages from an Intel machine
Comment 3 James 2011-07-13 10:23:58 UTC 
Created attachment 512624 [details]
/var/log/messages from a nVidia machine
Comment 4 James 2011-07-13 10:24:24 UTC 
Created attachment 512625 [details]
Xorg log from an Intel machine
Comment 5 James 2011-07-13 10:24:46 UTC 
Created attachment 512626 [details]
Xorg log from an nVidia machine
Comment 6 James 2011-07-13 10:25:38 UTC 
No longer have an ATI-based machine to hand, attaching requested info from Intel- and nVidia-based machines.
Comment 7 James 2012-05-19 11:59:45 UTC 
Well this is still happening in F17 under every Intel-based machine I can lay my hands on, but is this really a bug? Is this behaviour by design? (Does seem reasonably sensible to keep the cursor away from the main element of the login screen.)
Comment 8 Adam Jackson 2012-05-21 21:27:46 UTC 
The intel behaviour is what gdm intends.  I believe the other two are moving their cursors around unintentionally (a side effect of output configuration).
Comment 9 James 2012-05-21 21:33:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> The intel behaviour is what gdm intends.  I believe the other two are moving
> their cursors around unintentionally (a side effect of output configuration).

In that case, I guess this should be closed NOTABUG... any objections?
Comment 10 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-05-21 21:42:56 UTC 
nope, sounds right, though see:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666121

So things may change upstream.