display applet gets confused about the screen resolution

[Marius Gedminas]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

My laptop has a 1280x800 screen. When I try to run an SDL game that wants to establish 1024x768 fullscreen mode, I see my desktop on the right and bottom, with the game in the top-left area (I should file this bug somewhere too, but I've got no idea where -- SDL? X server?). I then quit the game, use xrandr to select 1024x768 with "scaling mode" set to Aspect, and run the game. When the game quits, I restore my video mode to 1280x800 using either xrandr or gnome-display-properties.

Now for the bug: every time I close and reopen the laptop lid, my desktop returns to 1024x768 instead of staying in 1280x800. I can press Fn-F7 to get the system to autoconfigure, which fixes things, but I have to do that every time after closing and reopening the lid (which also implies every time after resuming).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 13 21:57:00 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the capplet only applies change when you click on apply it doesn't run a server to re-apply those after lid events, the issue is rather an xorg one

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi Marius,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
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  apport-collect 521495

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  ubuntu-bug xorg

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or 'Invalid' as appropriate, at the following URL:

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[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I'm unable to reproduce this on Lucid. Yay!

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I spoke too soon.

After I left the laptop's lid closed for a longer period of time, then opened it, I was greeted by a 1024x768 desktop instead of the normal 1280x800.

Closing and re-opening it again changed to the correct resolution.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

apport-collect 521495 says "Package xorg-server not installed and no hook available, ignoring".

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

It's been a couple of days now.

Every time I leave the laptop running with the lid closed for a longer period of time (e.g. ~ 30 minutes), something changes the video mode to 1024x768 when I open it.

Every time I close the lid and open it within a couple of minutes, the video mode is correctly set to 1280x800.

Every time I suspending the laptop, then close the lid, then waiting several hours before opening the lid and resuming, the video mode is again correctly set to 1280x800.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xorg-server (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]