Package: fglrx-driver
Version: 8.44.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I am using a Radeon X300 with a monitor running at 1280x1024. The driver is
forcing a virtual size with twice the X dimension even though there is no
second display attached.
I have attempted a number of things to get around this, but none worked:
1) Set 'Virtual' to 1280 1024 in the Display section of xorg.conf
2) Forcing Xinerama to be disabled
3) Using the fglrx option "DesktopSetup" to "single"
4) Specifying a specific modeline and turning off EDID or DDC
None of these had any effect. It seems that the driver is just ignoring
everything I tell it. And in the case of #4 where I specified a modeline, the
X server just crashed at startup.
While the driver is scanning through all sorts of modes (I don't know where it
gets them) I see at the beginning:
(II) fglrx(0): Total of 50 modes found for primary display.
(--) fglrx(0): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 0)
(**) fglrx(0): *Mode "1280x1024": 135.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 80.0 kHz,
75.0 Hz
(II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025
1028 1066
This looks correct. But as the modes keep passing by, I see:
(**) fglrx(0): Default mode "320x200": 12.6 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 31.5
kHz, 60.0 Hz (D)
(II) fglrx(0): Modeline "320x200" 12.59 320 336 384 400 200 457 459 524
doublescan
(--) fglrx(0): Display dimensions: (330, 240) mm
(--) fglrx(0): DPI set to (98, 108)
(--) fglrx(0): Virtual size is 2560x1024 (pitch 2560)
(**) fglrx(0): *Mode "1280x1024": 135.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 80.0 kHz,
75.0 Hz
(II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025
1028 1066
It then proceeds to run though the same list of modelines three more times.
The end result is that the single monitor is indeed running at 1280x1024
@75Hz, but the virtual size is at 2560x1024 and I can't change it.
Perhaps this is related to the widescreen resolutions bug? I also tried the
previous version, 8.43.2-2, but it did the same thing. I am upgrading from
8.39.4-1.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages fglrx-driver depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.2-3 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5 the X.Org X server
Versions of packages fglrx-driver recommends:
ii fglrx-kernel-src 8.44.3-1 kernel module source for the non-f
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