Thanks for the advice, Chris! The --newmode/--addmode arguments will be
very useful. I do want to use that mode quite badly, as the display
represents all other resolutions I tried (of which there were many on
the older kernels) very badly.

I presently cannot remember on what basis I concluded that 14x9 was the
display's actual native resolution, so I can't claim I'm certain that
that is correct. However, I am quite certain that the actual native
resolution is not on the list of detected resolutions. I will try to
back my claims up with something solid (however, it will have to wait
till tomorrow, at least, as I am not presently near the system in
question).

I did try analysing the EDID data, using the "read-edid" tools from
http://www.polypux.org/projects/read-edid/ . The tools did complain that
there was something unexpected about the EDID data and that it was
probably bad. Thus I suspect that the EDID data is indeed bad and that
something changed about how faulty data is handled between kernel 3.7
and 3.8, causing the previously detected modes (of which there were many
more) to no longer be detected.

As for the additional logs of the working 14x9 mode: If you are still
interested in them, then I will be happy to try and produce/collect
them, when I get back to the affected system. I am not quite clear on
what you are after, though. If you are just interested in a set of logs
where the system successfully booted with light-dm switching to the 14x9
mode, then the original set of logs I uploaded seems to be what you are
looking for. In particular, you can see:

[+1.57s] DEBUG: Connecting to XServer :0
[+1.57s] DEBUG: Launching process 1674: xrandr --output HDMI2 --primary --mode 
1440x900
[+2.59s] DEBUG: Process 1674 exited with return value 0
[+2.59s] DEBUG: Exit status of xrandr --output HDMI2 --primary --mode 1440x900: 0
[+2.59s] DEBUG: Starting greeter

That just shows that it didn't mind using the mode in question on kernel
3.7 (at least on RC8). However, I suspect that you were after something
more specific. If so, please let me know.

Thanks for all your help, Chris!

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