tag 625814 moreinfo kthxbye On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 09:58:51 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.15.0-1 > Severity: normal > > Sorry in advance if the X driver is not the cause. > > I experience an annoying situation where, at times, during a Gnome session, a > non-connected external display is activated, which sets the desktop in > dual-screen mode, with that virtual external display being set as primary > display, hence makeing me lose the gnome panels. > > When displays are detected again by gnome-display-properties (launched with > Alt+F2, FWIW, since no menus or icons are left to start it), everything goes > back to normal situation : laptop with integrated screen only, as main > display. > > Note also, that this sometimes happens, more or less in a similar way at X > start, where the GDM login dialog is not visible, put on the not visible > external display. Moving the mouse back (left) to the visible part and > hitting return makes the dialog come back to visibility. > > Also, I'm not sure, but this may happen as I'm using synergyc connected to > another computer which has the mouse and keyboard... but synergy is not > active at X start, so if the 2 problems are related, then synergy is not the > cause. > Is this still reproducible with an updated stack (linux 3.0 or 3.1, X 1.11, intel 2.16)? If yes please provide xrandr --verbose output from the working and not-working cases, as well as dmesg when booting with drm.debug=4 and the issue appears. Then file a bug upstream including that info, according to http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html, and let us know the bug number for tracking. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110925134629.ga7...@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr
