progress report: f12 beta x86_64 on gateway mx7120

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 13:53 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> > what's the output of 'xrandr' at a console?
> 
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2080 x 800, maximum 4096 x 4096
> VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
>    1280x800       60.0*+
>    1280x720       59.9
>    1152x768       59.8
>    1024x768       60.0     59.9
>    800x600        60.3     59.9     56.2
>    848x480        59.7
>    720x480        59.7
>    640x480        59.9     59.4
> S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 
> > I suspect it thinks you have a second display attached, at
> > resolution 800x600.
> 
>   i'm guessing you meant 800x800, not 800x600 -- that's the difference
> between the actual res (1280x800) and what "xdpyinfo" is showing.  

nope, I didn't. I meant 800x600, because that's the most common 800 wide
resolution. X's 'screens' are always rectangular - so if you have one
head at 1600x1200 and another at 800x600 it'll just give you a square at
2400x1200, it won't give you an odd polygon with the exact right
heights. Actually, if you use such a setup, you'll notice you can scroll
the mouse off the bottom of the smaller display (in most WMs, I think
some 'fix' this). Anyway, not really important what the res of the
phantom display is.

> so,
> yes, it shows LVDS at the correct res (1280x800), but i don't see
> where it recognizes a second display.

me either, which is interesting, because...

>   oh, wait ... i just ran System->Prefs->Display and, sure enough,
> there was an additional 800x600 display.  where did that come from?
> i certainly didn't select that kind of config during install.

...this app and xrandr really ought to agree. strange that they don't.
well, please definitely attach Xorg.0.log - and probably that dmesg
output, too - to the bug report, as I asked. adding the above
information about gnome-display-properties (perhaps even a screenshot)
would help too. thanks!

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