It looks like my assumption about the resolution being the same after login was wrong, but at list we got the lists of available modes.
On http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2009Q2.html one of the items on the TODO list is to take the lid status into account. There is a corresponding bug report (with lots of duplicates): https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11455 . Does it look like that upstream bug report is addressing your issue? It seems a bit dangerous to me to only show the login screen on one of the detected monitor. Every now and then there are bugs where a monitor is detected when in fact there is none. Now, this only leads to wrong resolution, since the login screen is resized. It would be much worse if the login screen was only shown on the monitor which is in fact not there. See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.status%3Alist=FIXRELEASED&assignee_option=any&field.omit_dupes.used=&field.tag =ghost-monitor&field.tags_combinator=ANY&search=Search for some of those bug reports. Wouldn't it be an option to do the same thing as was the case in Hardy: both monitors use their native resolution, but their "desktop size" would be the least common denominator? See http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17844487/importdump.jpg for how this would look (taken from bug 273306 which had a non-existent VGA monitor) and http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12354400/screen.png for how the desktop then looked in mirror mode. ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #11455 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11455 -- [i965GM] GDM is starting up with wrong display resolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404919 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
