Bug 904082

Summary:

RFE: Add support for getting monitor coordinates from multiple screens

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Reporter:

Patrick van der Bleek <pvdbleek>

Component:

spice-vdagent

Assignee:

Hans de Goede <hdegoede>

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

QA Contact:

Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>

Severity:

high

Docs Contact:

Priority:

medium

Version:

6.3

CC:

acathrow, cfergeau, dblechte, lnovich, mbarta, michele, mkrcmari

Target Milestone:

Keywords:

FutureFeature, OtherQA

Target Release:

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Unspecified

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Whiteboard:

Fixed In Version:

spice-vdagent-0.14.0-1.el6

Doc Type:

Enhancement

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Last Closed:

2013-11-21 06:24:52 UTC

Type:

Bug

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Embargoed:

Bug Depends On:

951596

Bug Blocks:

835616

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Description	Flags
xorg.conf	none

Description Patrick van der Bleek 2013-01-25 12:25:03 UTC

Description of problem:
In the use case where neither Xrandr nor Xinerama is used, but multiple qxl-vga cards are used the agent does not know how to detect screen sizes.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a VM with multiple qxl cards
2. Run X without Xinerama or Xrandr
3. Connect through spice
  
Actual results:
spice-vdagent will not be able to detect screen sizes which will result in a virtual tablet with incorrect sizing.

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-01-29 06:49:04 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2013-04-11 10:39:01 UTC

Fixed upstream with this comit:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/?id=a322d13b7ee7ced191d50e44ad8a79bdd6839779

Comment 5 Hans de Goede 2013-04-11 10:52:50 UTC

Created attachment 734115 [details]
xorg.conf

Here is an example xorg.conf for testing this, this assumes a RHEL-6 vm with 3 qxl devices, note the pci addresses in the config file likely need to be updated for your specific vm setup.

Comment 11 Hans de Goede 2013-06-26 06:49:16 UTC

This is fixed in spice-vdagent-0.14.0-1.el6 moving to MODIFIED,

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 06:24:52 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1560.html