On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Tim Connors wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Brice Goglin wrote: > > > Tim Connors wrote: > > > and then Xorg.0.log goes on to claim it knows nothing about the IBM > > > modelines: > > > (II) R128(0): Not using mode "IBM_mode_1" (no mode of this name) > > > (II) R128(0): Not using mode "IBM_mode_2" (no mode of this name) > > > (II) R128(0): Not using mode "IBM_mode_3" (no mode of this name) > > > > > > Then I end up with cruddy 1024x768: > > > (**) R128(0): *Mode "[EMAIL PROTECTED]": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 83.9 MHz), > > > 60.1 kHz, 74.4 Hz > > > (which I find odd, because if it truly was using the flat panel's > > > settings, should it not have picked up the 60Hz rate the flat panel > > > requires? It works on both displays when I cycle through the > > > laptop's external/interal settings) > > > > > > > Could you try with xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.192-1 currently in > > experimental in case it helps? > > Same result with 1:6.6.192-1. > > > Or you feel more adventurous, you could try the randr-1.2 branch of the > > upstream git repository since it should be better at discovering > > modes/resolutions/... automatically without the need for anything in > > xorg.conf. I have some packages of this somewhere if you want to try it. > > The latter certainly will be a problem -- I have good reason for wanting > to supply my own modelines -- I have a fixed frequency external monitor. > I don't need better discovery -- this all used to work, and I've already > worked out which modelines will work on my monitor, and X will not do a > better job than me at detecting necessary modelines from a monitor that > doesn't do DDC. This used to work prior to 6.9 -- I haven't changed > anything to do with my carefully crafted modelines, so those should > continue to be working.
A mandrake user has discovered a workaround, and I have just submitted more info upstream to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5832 Bad assumptions seem to be made about the presense of flat panel registers implying that a flat panel is being used. I have proposed a more robust workaround rather than the complete disabling of the valid-modelines-for-a-flat-panel check, but wouldn't know how to actually put this into action. Hopefully someone knows enough about the driver to be able to check this. -- TimC "I give up," said Pierre de Fermat's friend. "How DO you keep a mathematician busy for 350 years?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
