Bug 479403 - clean install of F10 doesn't properly handle external monitor/virtual desktop size
Summary: clean install of F10 doesn't properly handle external monitor/virtual desktop...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-server-utils
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-09 12:14 UTC by Luis Villa
Modified: 2009-12-18 07:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:33:33 UTC
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Description Luis Villa 2009-01-09 12:14:32 UTC
Description of problem:
I use an external 1650x1050 monitor alongside my 1024x768 laptop (a thinkpad x41 tablet.) The external monitor is detected when hotplugged, but only as 1024x768, and gnome-display-properties does not offer the option to rotate it. 

I know the card is capable of DTRT, since I did this every day before my clean re-install; I'll recreate my old setup but in the meantime I thought it'd be good to file this in the vain hope that someday it'll work automagically :)

the command that used to work:

/usr/bin/xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --pos 1024x0 --rotate normal -
-output VGA --mode 1680x1050 --pos 0x0 --rotate left

this worked with the following xorg.conf:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=248311

In particular, to get it to work I added the following section (first added around F7?):
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Virtual   2048 1024
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection

In the brave new post-xorg.conf world, when I run the previous command, I get:
/usr/bin/xrandr: cannot find mode 1680x1050

I'd obviously like that command to work 'out of the box' if that can; in the meantime I'll just fix it myself.

other bits:
my old lshal, xorg.conf, etc., are all attached to bug 366211. Hardware hasn't changed, just that I went from my old trusty manually edited xorg.conf to the brave new post-xorg.conf world.

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2009-02-08 07:56:14 UTC
Yeah, this doesn't work yet.  Magic framebuffer sizing is hard, resizing is even worse.  Might have this working for F11, we'll see, but it's not working anywhere yet really.

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