Bug#558662: gdm: virtual size does not fit available size
Jeff Abrahamson
jeff at purple.com
Sun Nov 29 18:01:43 UTC 2009
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1
Severity: normal
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
I'll add that gdm with no xorg.conf leaves my system in a better state
than what Xorg -configure does, though perhaps that is my inexperience
with xorg.conf hacking.
Google and docs haven't pointed me to a solution. Any pointers?
Thanks much.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.111 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii gksu 2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session [x-session-ma 2.26.2-1 The GNOME Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal- 2.28.1-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudit0 1.7.13-1 Dynamic library for security audit
ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.2-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.26.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.3-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpam-modules 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.0-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii librsvg2-common 2.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.88-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-18 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.5-1 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 2:1.2.1-2 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii metacity [x-window-manager] 1:2.28.0-2 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii sawfish [x-window-manager] 1:1.3.5.2-1 a window manager for X11
ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 250-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii dialog 1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii gdm-themes 0.6.2 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii whiptail 0.52.10-4.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.6.5-1 nested X server
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4+4 the X.Org X server
ii zenity 2.28.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
Versions of packages gdm suggests:
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.28.1-1 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii locales 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii pm-utils 1.2.5-4 utilities and scripts for power ma
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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