Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 904082
RFE: Add support for getting monitor coordinates from multiple screens
Last modified: 2014-01-02 05:32:07 EST
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:
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Fixed upstream with this comit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/?id=a322d13b7ee7ced191d50e44ad8a79bdd6839779
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.
This is fixed in spice-vdagent-0.14.0-1.el6 moving to MODIFIED,
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