Bug#496169: gnome: Window manager using 1280x800 despite screen being 1680x1050.

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:02:45AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> I have a Sony VGC-LT71DB - a kind of iMac clone that looks like the offspring
> of a television and an aquarium - and xrandr thinks that I have two screens
> plugged. As a result, window managers such as GNOME and XFCE use a mixture of
> two screen sizes, which results in having some service bars annoyingly far from
> the edges of the physical screen.

Do you know when the problem first appeared? Did you run earlier xserver-xorg-core
and -video-intel from testing?

> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1680
> VGA connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
>    1280x800       60.0* 
>    1280x768       60.0  
>    1024x768       60.0  
>    800x600        60.3  
>    640x480        59.9  
> LVDS connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
>    1680x1050      59.9*+   60.0  
>    1600x1024      60.0  
>    1400x1050      85.3     74.8     70.0     60.0  
>    1280x1024      85.0     75.0     60.0  
>    1440x900       60.2  
>    1280x960       85.0     60.0  
>    1280x800       60.0  
>    1152x864       85.1     75.0  
>    1280x768       60.0  
>    1152x768       54.8  
>    1024x768       85.0     75.0     70.1     60.0  
>    832x624        74.6  
>    800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
>    640x480        85.0     72.8     75.0     59.9  
>    720x400        85.0  
>    640x400        85.1  
>    640x350        85.1  
> TV disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

If VGA is wrongly detected adding the following may help:

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier "VGA"
  Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection

> I attached to this mail the output of the script
> /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-video-intel/script.

Good idea, we really need it. But I don't see it attached here :)

Brice