https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862961 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862961#c0 Summary: Prompt for encrypted partition password not visible (off screen) when external monitor plugged in Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bdimm@hotneuron.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 Booting a laptop with an encrypted partition. When no external monitor is attached, the prompt for the password for the encrypted partition is positioned along the bottom edge of the screen. When an external monitor is attached, the password prompt is either partially or entirely off the bottom of the screen, depending on the monitor. I'm talking here about the graphical password prompt (I don't know if it is part of KDE or something else that starts before KDE), not the text prompt you see if you hit ESC to escape the graphical overlay and see the plain text boot messages. Probably related: The laptop seems to be driving the external monitor at the laptop screen's native resolution rather than at the external monitor's resolution (even when the laptop is in a docking station and the screen is closed [but still seems to be on?]). Maybe the positioning of the password dialog is being computed from the external monitor's native resolution even though that is not the resolution being displayed. Even if this is just a side-effect of some other problem causing the monitor to be driven at the wrong resolution, trying to position the password input along the bottom edge of the screen (rather than the center) seems like a risky and odd choice. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure laptop to have an encrypted partition. 2. Plug in an external monitor (probably needs to have more vertical pixels than laptop screen). 3. Boot and wait for the password prompt for the encrypted partition. Actual Results: Password prompt is partially or completely off the bottom of the screen, possibly leaving the user completely unaware that there is a prompt and thinking that the system is stuck. Expected Results: Password prompt should be on the screen. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.