Bug 526836 - firstboot appears to be confused with multiple monitor setup
Summary: firstboot appears to be confused with multiple monitor setup
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firstboot
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Chris Lumens
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...
: 529045 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: F12Blocker, F12FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-10-02 00:00 UTC by Dave Airlie
Modified: 2013-01-10 05:30 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firstboot-1.110-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-10-21 21:41:59 UTC
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Description Dave Airlie 2009-10-02 00:00:03 UTC
Since ajax set X to start by default spanning monitors it seems firstboot
is confused, not sure exactly why.

I appeared to get a window with the button offscreen somewhere, however
X then crashed when I vt switched (different bug, fixed in rawhide) so I didn't get much further.

We probably need to investigate this before beta or final.

Comment 1 Dave Airlie 2009-10-02 00:01:50 UTC
Okay some more info the app appears to be confused with xinerama geometries or something, it starts on the right hand screen, but looks to be sized for the left or something like that.

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2009-10-14 18:43:45 UTC
*** Bug 529045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2009-10-14 18:44:48 UTC
see my duplicate for a more extensive evaluation.

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Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2009-10-14 21:53:49 UTC
this Koji build with the elsewhere-discussed 'ui fixes':

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=136672

makes it usable in my problematic case. I have asked Robert Day to see if it does anything about his. Dave, does it sort out yours too?

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Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2009-10-14 22:22:06 UTC
jesse wants to add this post-beta rather than try to cram it into the beta, so dropping the beta blocker designation. will document on Common Bugs.

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Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2009-10-15 18:02:59 UTC
oh, forgot to mention - Robert Day reported the updated firstboot fixes his instance of the bug too, which is great, more than I expected in fact. can we file a request to have this tagged into f12 final (not beta)?

common bugs: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#firstboot-multihead

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Comment 7 Vedran Miletić 2009-10-18 11:32:46 UTC
I can think of another problematic case for spanned firstboot. On RV730 and RV740 GPUs (Radeon 46xx and 47xx) and maybe some other, default order of displays is swapped on opensource ATI drivers compared to ATI Catalyst.

To explain it a bit better, consider this: if you connect left monitor to lower port, and right monitor to upper port on card, and install ATI Catalyst under Windows, you will get (by default) right order of displays.

However, when using opensource (either radeon or radeonhd) drivers, it will be swapped. That means firstboot will look a bit weird, even if it's fully functional.

I'm not sure if there is a bug about it (on xorg-video-ati or xorg-video-radeonhd); I never considered reporting it because it is so easy to reconfigure, but since user can't configure displays before firstboot appears, it will indeed look a bit weird.

Comment 8 Jesse Keating 2009-10-21 21:41:59 UTC
The build is tagged for final.


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