Bug#558662: gdm: virtual size does not fit available size
Jeff Abrahamson
jeff at purple.com
Tue Dec 1 07:51:54 UTC 2009
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:37:27AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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> Le lundi 30 novembre 2009 à 20:03 +0000, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
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> > > Le dimanche 29 novembre 2009 à 18:01 +0000, Jeff Abrahamson a écrit :
> > > > Gdm comes up in single-head mode, but I have two monitors. Using
> > > > /usr/bin/gnome-display-properties, I can uncheck the mirror
> > > > display button, but am told "required virtual size does not fit
> > > > available size: requested=(3840, 1200), minimum=(320, 200),
> > > > maximum=(1920, 1920)". Google suggests this may be related to KMS
> > > > support, which seems from what I read to be driver specific. I've
> > > > filed a bug with the xorg driver guys, but am looking for a
> > > > workaround to get gdm to allocate adequate space at startup.
> > > >
> > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516210#60
> > >
> > > How is that a problem in GDM?
> >
> > It appears that gdm starts X differently than simply running startx
> > (as per experiment and as per Xorg docs). So I'm hoping there's a way
> > to give gdm some hints about how it should start X.
>
> It merely starts X like this:
> /usr/bin/X $DISPLAY -audit 0 -auth $SOMETHING -nolisten tcp $VT
>
> Everything else is configured in X itself.
Ah, drat, I'd misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification. Well,
fine to close the issue then.
-Jeff
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