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Description of problem: Yesterday I finally got the Fedora8 update working and have switched over to F8. It took a bit of fiddling with X11 before it would stay up in level 5. I ran Application->System Tools->Software Updater several times (with a subset of available updates selected initially - otherwise the dependency checking stage is tooo slow). After the system was running fine in Single Head mode, I attempted to configure it for the dual heads I was running under Fedora 7. This was unsuccessful. The easiest problem to specify here was my attempt to configure dual heads in Spanning Desktop configuration. It only gives me Individual Desktops when it restarts. These are individual, but identical desktops - not useful. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 8 up2date as of this moment (but not rawhide) How reproducible: I attempted to get Spanning Desktops many times using the GUI with no success. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have stable single head configuration up and running. 2. System->Administration->Display (select Dual Head tab)->Desktop layout->(select Spanning Desktops) 3. Hmm, I am doing it on this system, and when I reconfig display, it is going to want to restart X11, thus I loose this bug report. 4. Go to another system and key in this bug report up to this point. 5. Click OK on Display Settings dialog box. Actual results: After logging out user1 and seeing the login: prompt on a non X11 screen, the system restarted X11 and I had my login layout on both screens. The mouse movement was duplicated on both screens. I logged in as user1 and went to System->Administration->Display and see that the GUI says my resolution settings are 800x600. This is not true as the screen appears to be in 1920x1200 mode. Going to the Dual Head tab, the GUI says resultion is 800x600 and the Desktop layout is Spanning Desktops. This is not true. The GUI does seem to have retained the proper Monitor type for the Second Monitor (2407WFP analog), but has Unknown monitor for the Hardware Monitor Type. Expected results: Additional info: System is a dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz with 3G ram ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL (Radeon 8500 LE) (as detected..) Monitor1: Dell 2405FPW (using DVI port on controller) Monitor2: Dell 2407WPF (using analog port on controller) Resolution: 1920x1200 on both screens ----- It would also be helpful if the display configuration were written out to unique file names. Since the process of fiddling with the configuration using the gui involves multiple trials (and errors), having a historical record of trial xorg.conf would be helpful. Often in my trials, the resolution selections available fall back to 800x660 and 640x480. (As I recall, when I configured FC7, I think I gave up on the GUI and just edited the xorg.conf file with vim - I will do this now)
OK, the truth is that we are all now in the wonderful new world of xrandr, so Xinerama (which is what system-config-display uses) is not that usefull anymore. Try play with xrandr(1) and tell us whether it helps.
[user1@hoho2 ~]$ xrandr -v Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". RandR extension missing [user1@hoho2 ~]$ xrandr -q Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0". RandR extension missing [user1@hoho2 ~]$ Not too promising..
Doing a google found http://www.webservertalk.com/message2119714.html Suggestion was to disable Xinerama in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart X. This gives more reasonable information. I will click along a bit more.
OK, now I followed along with http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/dual-monitor-wspanning-desktop-no-longer-works-in-fedora-8-618011/ Comment #4 - suggested putting Virtual 3840 1200 at end of screen 0 subsection (in subsection though) I restarted X and then xrandr --output VGA-0 --left-of DVI-0 I got diagnostic: xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1200, maximum 1920 x 1200 ----- Maybe I can fake out a wider screen in xorg.conf
I fiddled around a bit more, but only got as far as: [root@hoho2 user1]# xrandr --verbose --output VGA-0 --left-of DVI-0 xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1200 (desired size 3840x1200) The Google hits all say that putting in the Virtual line does the trick for them. Not me.
OK, so we will probably need a little bit more information about your system. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 294242 [details] /var/log/Xorg.setup.log (dated 2008-02-06 19:08)
Created attachment 294243 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log (dated 2008-02-07 11:41)
Created attachment 294244 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf (dated 2008-02-07 00:01)
I moved the xorg.conf aside and also the xorg.conf.backup and then restarted X. I did not see any newly created /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It seems to be working on fumes. [root@hoho2 user1]# cd /etc/X11 [root@hoho2 X11]# ls -lt | head total 164 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1551 2008-02-07 00:01 xorg.conf.aside lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-02-06 11:28 X -> ../../usr/bin/Xorg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 19:46 fontpath.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 18:12 fs drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-02-05 03:38 xinit drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 03:29 twm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 2007-10-29 13:46 xorg.conf.original-0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2377 2007-10-29 13:39 xorg.conf.fglrx-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2306 2007-10-29 13:39 xorg.conf.fglrx-0 [root@hoho2 X11]# I will post this and then do a total reboot of this system. (looking at the 2nd (VGA) screen, it is a duplicate of the first screen)
Total reboot does not seem to create a new xorg.conf. See ls with access times listed (-c) [root@hoho2 X11]# ls -ltc | head total 164 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2974 2008-02-07 17:25 xorg.conf.backup.aside -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1551 2008-02-07 12:14 xorg.conf.aside lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-02-06 11:28 X -> ../../usr/bin/Xorg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 19:46 fontpath.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 18:12 fs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1052 2008-02-05 03:46 prefdm drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-02-05 03:38 xinit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547 2008-02-05 03:38 Xmodmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 492 2008-02-05 03:38 Xresources [root@hoho2 X11]# Let me put all of the xorg* files into a sub-directory and try to reboot again.
[root@hoho2 X11]# mkdir BUG [root@hoho2 X11]# mv xorg* BUG [root@hoho2 X11]# ls -lt | head total 84 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-07 17:45 BUG lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-02-06 11:28 X -> ../../usr/bin/Xorg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 19:46 fontpath.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 18:12 fs drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-02-05 03:38 xinit drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 03:29 twm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547 2007-10-12 14:22 Xmodmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 492 2007-10-12 14:22 Xresources -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1052 2007-10-09 16:06 prefdm [root@hoho2 X11]# Will now reboot..
I don't see any new xorg.conf. What file would you like to see? [root@hoho2 user1]# cd /etc/X11 [root@hoho2 X11]# ls -ltc | head total 84 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-07 17:45 BUG lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-02-06 11:28 X -> ../../usr/bin/Xorg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 19:46 fontpath.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 18:12 fs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1052 2008-02-05 03:46 prefdm drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-02-05 03:38 xinit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547 2008-02-05 03:38 Xmodmap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 492 2008-02-05 03:38 Xresources drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-05 03:29 twm Note -c in command below [root@hoho2 X11]# ls -ltc BUG total 88 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1551 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.aside -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2974 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.backup.aside -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1939 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.e1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1963 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.e2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.e3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.e4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2306 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.fglrx-0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2377 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.fglrx-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.original-0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1538 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.w1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1526 2008-02-07 17:45 xorg.conf.works List without the -c [root@hoho2 X11]# ls -lt BUG total 88 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1551 2008-02-07 00:01 xorg.conf.aside -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 2007-10-29 13:46 xorg.conf.original-0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2377 2007-10-29 13:39 xorg.conf.fglrx-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2306 2007-10-29 13:39 xorg.conf.fglrx-0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 2007-10-29 13:29 xorg.conf.e4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2308 2007-10-27 10:35 xorg.conf.e3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1963 2007-10-27 10:26 xorg.conf.e2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1939 2007-10-27 10:20 xorg.conf.e1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1538 2007-10-27 09:36 xorg.conf.w1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1526 2007-10-27 07:47 xorg.conf.works -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2974 2006-08-21 15:03 xorg.conf.backup.aside [root@hoho2 X11]#
That's perfectly OK, that there is no xorg.conf -- don't panic, magic of Xorg is now sufficient just to find out what's needed without any bloody stinking xorg.conf ;-).
Yeah OK, no stinking xorg.conf However, my problem is that I have a stinking mirror in my second monitor. I want Spanning Desktops. Where do I tell the stinking xorg what I want?
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