On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:37:27AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > [33 lines, 265 words, 1468 characters] Top characters: etiroan> > > 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: > > > [19 lines, 138 words, 855 characters] Top characters: etiorsnu > > > > > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
