On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Matthew Barnes <mbar...@redhat.com> wrote: > I have an older Dell workstation with an integrated Intel i865 running > Debian Testing with XOrg 7.6. > > Recently I got a MyGica V2V Pro [1] video to VGA converter so I can play > games from an old game console on my LCD monitor. It has a VGA passthru > so I can switch between my PC and the game console or other video device > device on-the-fly. > > However when I boot the machine with this V2V device between the PC and > monitor, I see the BIOS screen flash by and the kernel start to load, > but then when it tries to do a mode switch the monitor goes into power > save mode and never comes back. > > When the PC and monitor are connected directly, everything works fine. > > Figuring the V2V device is interfering with the intel driver's EDID > probe, I thought if I captured my working configuration and hard-coded > it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then the X server would have everything it > needed to know without probing the monitor. > > So I ran "Xorg -configure" to get a base xorg.conf and then replaced the > "Monitor" section with the output of "get-edid | parse-edid". But the > intel driver seem to want to probe EDID regardless. > > Attached is my xorg.conf and a diff of two Xorg logs -- one WITH the V2V > device attached and showing failures (-), and another WITHOUT the V2V > device attached and showing normal operation (+). > > Hoping for some advice on what I'm doing wrong or what to try next.
try adding video=1024x768 on the kernel command line. Dave. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
