compiz resolution is incorrect on internal and external monitors ATI Radeon X600

[JoeBaloney]

Binary package hint: compiz

I have a dell latitude D810 laptop, 2g ram and an X600 Radeon card using the fglrx driver with compiz on. The native resolution of the laptop display is 1920x1200 but I often run it in a docking station that allows me to keep the laptop monitor open so I can see both screens, the external monitor requires 1280x1024 and I am running in clone mode as I often have to use a projector (I'm a teacher).

If I am running in 1280x1024 mode, and I reboot when the OS loads neither screen displays the full video output (see attached screenshot) The external (1280x1024 max) monitor shows only part of the screen in both directions, the laptop monitor shows the exact same thing as the external except it shows it in the upper left corner and the rest of the laptop monitor is brown.

If I attempt to change screen resolution using the screen resolution application it will either do nothing and ask me if I want to keep my changes or it will flash for a second in the correct resolution and then snap back to the wrong resolution again.

The only way I have been able to fix this problem is by doing: "metacity --replace" changing the resolution then doing "compiz --replace" after those two steps everything appears normal again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 17 07:45:27 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: compiz 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/scripts
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: compiz
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[JoeBaloney (joe-baloney)]

Note: the xdpyinfo file was done AFTER doing the metacity/compiz --replace functions if needed I can reboot and add the "before" version

[JoeBaloney (joe-baloney)]

I think this is the same as bug 206998 but didn't want to mark it as a duplicate because I am not absolutely sure.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I have the same problem with an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT on Ubuntu Intrepid (64 bits). My laptop has a 1280x800 display and an external screen 1440x900; the image appears cut off (the bottom and the right parts are black) and replacing compiz with metacity fixes it. I have set the external screen to "Separate X screen" using the NVIDIA X Server Settings application.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Joe: looking only at the screenshots and the description, this doesn't seem like the same issue to me (now, if it is caused by the same problem, I don't know. I've no idea about graphics stuff :)).

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.