Setting screen resolution fails with error message "null"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After upgrading from Natty to Oneiric, my second monitor was disabled on first login. I opened the resolution dialogue via the system menu and enabled it (both monitors and their resolutions were correctly shown in this dialogue). After clicking "apply", nothing changed but a popup box appeared saying "The chosen screen configuration could not be applied (null)".
Obviously, changing the resolution should work (it did in Natty), and if it fails, the message should be more helpful than "null".
I have a Radeon HD 4870 and use the usual radeon driver.
Manually enabling the second monitor with xrandr led to a Compiz crash, but I'll file a separate bug about that if I can reproduce it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
CompositorRunning: compiz
CurrentDmesg:
[ 29.109352] EXT4-fs (dm-2): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0
[ 30.979254] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1856) terminated with status 1
Date: Fri Sep 30 20:16:35 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-30 18:47:44.708272
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
ATI Technologies Inc RV770 [Radeon HD 4870] [1002:9440] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:0851]
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-30 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/25/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0704
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: M4A79XTD EVO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0X
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
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affects: | ubuntu → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
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