PepsiMan

After upgrading from Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy, I have a problem with the second head of my dual head setup.

This head is for TV output, so it is 720×576.
I had no problems before upgrading, but afterwards:

• I can only see half of the gnome panel at the top.
• I can’t see the panel at the bottom at all.
• When I maximise a program, or use a fullscreen video player, it maximises to 1280×1024, and I can only see the top left of the window.

The Xorg log looks ok:
$ egrep “1280|1024|720″ /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) NVIDIA(0): “1280×1024″
(II) NVIDIA(0): “1024×768″
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024
(II) NVIDIA(1): “720×576″
(II) NVIDIA(1): Virtual screen size determined to be 720 x 576
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode “1280×1024″
(II) NVIDIA(1): Setting mode “720×576″

xdpyinfo shows nothing unusual:
$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
dimensions: 1280×1024 pixels (382×302 millimeters)
dimensions: 720×576 pixels (185×146 millimeters)

Can someone please explain what is causing this.
Thanks.

Update: This was Debian bug 420679. Now fixed

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