Bug#439663: totem messes with xrandr in fullscreen mode

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Bläsing wrote:
> I'm running a dual-head setup with the x.org-ati driver (radeon/r300)
> and totem messes with the xrandr settings.
> 
>      1. I noticed this behaviour first when running a game in wine this
>         switched my desktop to 800x600, 
>      2. I switched to 1824x768 (1024x768 first head, 800x600 second
>         head) manually,
>      3. started totem, moved it to second head and switched to
>         fullscreen
>      4. exit the game, which restores the original resolution of
>         3080x1050
>      5. exit fullscreen of totem - which brings me back to the 1824x768
>         resolution
> 
> The bug is the behaviour in 5. - I see absolutely no reason, that totem
> messes with the xrandr info.

Is this Xinerama or RandR 1.2? What version of the ati driver are you
using?

> With the new branch of the x.org-ati driver it gets even worse. There
> the second head is disabled, when I switch to full screen mode - so
> basicly with the new drivers I can't use totem anymore for serious media
> playing and I'm back to xine.
> 
> Disabling xrandr messing should do the trick (I think).

Xv seems to be broken on the second head with 1:6.7.191-1
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027601.html

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Sven Arvidsson
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