Bug 303855 – kde-4.4.4 comes up in wrong screen resolution

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Peter Humphrey 2010-02-07 11:53:50 UTC]

My screen has native 1600x1200 resolution, but I prefer to run at 1400x1050. I've used the control centre to set this resolution, but every time I log in via kdm the screen is at 1600x1200. If I start the control centre and the Display panel, the required resolution is set immediately.

Screen: Iiyama AU4831D flat panel.
VGA: PNY Quadro FX580
OpenGL: either xorg-x11 or nvidia - both give the same results.


Reproducible: Always




$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc62 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r3 x86_64)                                                                      
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System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1                                                                
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:15:01 +0000                                
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]                                                      
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37                                                      
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10                                                      
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1                                           
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8                                                       
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.0-r2                                                     
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1                                                        
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.0-r1                                                     
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2                                                          
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65                                                   
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1                 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20                                                         
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.2                                                 
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1                                                       
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b                                                       
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1                                                    
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"                                                    
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 sun-bcla-java-vm PUEL"                           
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"                                                      
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"                                                   
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"                                                       
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"        
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/init.d /etc/pam.d /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"                           
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe"                                                 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"                                                  
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --nospinner"                                  
FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg ccache distlocks fail-clean fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"                                                              
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org"  
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"                                                                
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"                                                                 
LINGUAS="en_GB"                                                                   
MAKEOPTS="-j5 -s"                                                                 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS=""
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/webapps-experimental /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://serv.ethnet/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr encode exif fam ffmpeg flac fortran fxsr gd gdbm gif gmp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv ipv6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde lame libnotify logitech-mouse logrotate lzma mad midi mmx modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia odbc ogg opengl openmp pae pam pcre pdf perl php png pppd qt3support qt4 readline reflection rss session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis webkit wmf xml xorg xulrunner xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CAMERAS="fuji" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Peter Humphrey 2010-02-18 11:38:19 UTC]

KDE-4.6.2 doesn't remember the screen resolution at all. I have to set it myself every time I log in.

[Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-07-03 15:03:13 UTC]

Is this still the case in KDE 4.4.4 (current stable)?

[Comment 3 Peter Humphrey 2010-07-06 07:59:15 UTC]

Yes, so it seems.

I had avoided the problem by changing the sizes of everything in the display, rather than changing the display resolution, so I hadn't noticed whether the problem remained in successive versions of KDE.

However, a quick test, in which I changed the resolution, then logged out and in again, confirms that the native screen resolution is used at login (via KDM) in preference to the control panel setting.

[Comment 4 Peter Humphrey 2010-07-06 08:08:22 UTC]

Further Info from two more tests:

1. After logging in via KDM, I set the resolution to 1400x1050, then logged out. I switched to VT5, /etc/init.d/xdm stop, startx and I was back to 1600x1200.

2. I set 1400x1050 again and exited X, then startx again put me back to 1600x1200.

So it seems not to be affected by KDM.

Hope that helps.

[Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-08-20 20:53:38 UTC]

Maybe someone more knowledgable could comment whether kde is even _supposed_ to do this?!

[Comment 6 Peter Humphrey 2010-08-21 09:45:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Maybe someone more knowledgable could comment whether kde is even _supposed_ to
> do this?!

Good question. However, I'd be surprised if KDE were, in effect, to declare itself more knowledgeable than the user. That's more like Windows.

[Comment 7 Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) 2010-12-30 16:38:48 UTC]

can you report upstream plz?

[Comment 8 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-04-03 15:53:41 UTC]

Do you have any better luck with kde-4.6.2 (in tree soon, stable candidate)?

[Comment 9 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-04-03 15:54:03 UTC]

Do you have any better luck with kde-4.6.2 (in tree in a few days, stable candidate)?

[Comment 10 Peter Humphrey 2011-04-03 16:49:20 UTC]

I'll have to wait and see. I'm still on 4.4.5 and have the original behaviour.

[Comment 11 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-06-13 10:37:59 UTC]

Please reopen if you still have the problem with kde-4.6.