Composition failing for dual monitor setup after upgrading Fedora

Iván Zaera Avellón izaera at gmail.com
Mon May 13 13:55:58 UTC 2019


I see.

Thanks very much for the pointer. I will try in mutter :-).

El lun., 13 may. 2019 a las 15:02, Olivier Fourdan (<fourdan at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Hi Iván,
>
> Wayland is a protocol between clients and the compositor, and this mailing
> list is more about the bugs in either libwayland (a small IPC library) or
> the Wayland protocols themselves, so it's unlikely that compositor specific
> issues can be addressed in this list.
>
> What you describe here looks like a bug in the Wayland compositor
> specifically, which in the case of GNOME is mutter so you should report
> that particular issue with GNOME upstream against mutter in
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues instead.
>
> HTH,
> Cheers,
> Olivier
>
>
>
> On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 13:26, Iván Zaera Avellón <izaera at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi community:
>>
>> I'm new to the list and have come here because someone referenced me the
>> list from the Ask Fedora forum.
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is because I have recently updated to Fedora 30 and
>> the wayland session is intermittently broken for my setup while the xorg
>> one works seamlessly.
>>
>> I thought maybe someone in this list could give me some hints on how to
>> help diagnosing the problem and, in case it is a bug, report it or help to
>> fix it.
>>
>> This is the original question in the Fedora forum ->
>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/after-upgrade-to-f30-wayland-with-dual-monitors-shows-garbage-on-main-monitor/1079
>> but I'll write a summary here too:
>>
>>
>> I have just updated to F30 from F29 and my gnome wayland session does not
>> work any more when a second monitor is attached to my HDMI port. The
>> problem is that the laptop monitor shows garbage and only the attached one
>> works fine.
>>
>>
>> If I unplug the monitor it usually recovers from the condition. If I use
>> xorg everything goes fine.
>>
>>
>> I’m using a MacBook Pro with an “Intel Corporation Crystal Well
>> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 08)” VGA card. The laptop's monitor is
>> a Retina and the external monitor is not, though the external one is
>> physically bigger.
>>
>>
>> Also, playing with resolutions and scale factors, the problem seems to
>> disappear for some configurations but unfortunately they are not usable
>> configurations because displays are too mismatched in sizes (from that of
>> the real world) which makes window sizes unusable (because of being too big
>> or too small).
>>
>> Any ideas or hints on how to begin the investigation?
>>
>> Thanks ☺.
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