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. -Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org