login screen progress bar screen misaligned on dual-head setups

[wdesmet]

Binary package hint: gdm

When logging in, a progress bar (back and forth type) is displayed with some text while presumably gnome is started. Unfortunately, on my dual head setup this is displayed either on the wrong screen or with the wrong resolution.

My setup is an ATI card and two screens of different resolutions. When I log in, the progress bar is displayed on my left screen (the secondary monitor), which is the smaller one of the two (the right screen is the primary monitor). But it is sized at the size of the right screen, which is wider and taller, meaning the progress dialog spills over onto the right screen.

Some ways this could be fixed:
- pick the resolution of the monitor it's displaying on
- display on the primary monitor
- clone on both displays (would really be preferrable)

[Thibault Dupuis (dthibault)]

I have the same problem with the wrong resolution on my second screen on the login screen.
The problem fix after the login screen.

[wdesmet (kromagg)]

How so, incomplete?

[Thibault Dupuis (dthibault)]

Please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and your lspci.

[wdesmet (kromagg)]

Propose to retitle: [...]misaligned on ATI propietary driver dualhead setups. (can't I do this myself?)

Anyway, the free drivers in karmic have evolved to the point where they work fine with my graphics card (of course, if I need 3D I'll have to revisit this). It just took some tweaking and setting the virtual size manually in my xorg.conf after the automatic tools got it wrong. It works correctly now with the free drivers (though X still picks the wrong resolution for my main screen on gdm start-up, as it mirrors across both).

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