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gnome-settings-daemon package

Screen Resolution Icon in Notification Area

Bug #252258 reported by Simey on 2008-07-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #252546: Provides a permanent status icon for configuring resolution. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Intrepid by Simey

Bug Description

I have recently installed Intrepid Alpha 3, with the proprietary nVidia drivers. Within the notification area the icon for changing screen resolution has appeared, and after being used for a day and reset multiple times seems to want to stay.
This is confusing, because my laptop is running very well at its native resolution. I attempted to change to a lower resolution and then back again in an attempt to get rid of the icon. Changing the resolution down resulted in crashing the gnome setting daemon.
I'm not running compiz, and turning it on seems to have no effect.

System overview;
Dell Vostro 1400
Intel Core 2 Duo T7250
nVidia Geforce 8400M GS
Running 8.04 Alpha 3 off a USB hard drive.

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Simey (saiflo) wrote on 2008-07-27:

LSPCI Edit (15.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Simey (saiflo) wrote on 2008-07-27:

DMESG Edit (26.9 KiB, text/plain)

Line of interest regds setting daemon crashing when resolution is changed?:
[ 82.247050] gnome-settings-[5518] trap int3 ip:7fd2cd174bf4 sp:7fffda186980 error:0

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Simey (saiflo) wrote on 2008-07-27:

So I removed the proprietary nVidia driver and tried again. The notification icon was still there, and when I attempted to change the resolution (to 1024x768 fwiw) I was removed from my desktop and dumped to the login screen. Any attempts to log in since have resulted in being returned to the login screen.
I ran dmesg from a terminal, and (not being any good with the cli) the only thing that appeared to change during a login attempt was:
mtrr: base (0xe0000000) is not aligned on a size (0x7f00000) boundary.

It's bizarre in that the login screen had the native resolution and worked perfectly.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2008-07-28:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in gnome-settings-daemon.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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James Westby (james-w) wrote on 2008-07-28:

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.

This particular bug has already been reported, so I have marked it
as a duplicate. Please add any further information to the other bug.

Thanks,

James

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Simey (saiflo) wrote on 2008-07-28:

Hi, James,
Thank you for addressing the original issue of the screen resolution icon not disappearing. If you would please read the rest of the report, you will see there is a much greater graphical instability problem that I incorrectly associated with the resolution icon being visible.
As the name of this bug is rather misleading, and the initial bug mentioned is not of importance, should I post another bug regarding this graphics problem?