Bug#462582: xserver-xorg-video-ati: regression, size configuration incredibly broken, on bog-standard display size

Brice Goglin Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org
Fri Jan 25 23:08:29 PST 2008


Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:13:04AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> I need the xrandr output of 6.7.197 without --verbose too (the preferred
>> mode does not appear in verbose mode yet).
>>     
>
> This is 6.7.198 (the git one), is that ok already?
> Otherwise I'd have to restart sessions once again...
>
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1680 x 1200
> VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 290mm x 210mm
>    1680x1050      60.0  
>    1600x1024      60.0  
>    1400x1050      60.0  
>    1280x1024      60.0  
>    1440x900       60.2  
>    1280x960       60.0  
>    1280x800       60.0  
>    1152x864       75.0  
>    1280x768       60.0  
>    1152x768       54.8  
>    1024x768       70.1*    60.0  
>    832x624        74.6  
>    800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
>    640x512        69.7  
>    640x480        75.0     72.8     72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0     59.9  
>    720x400        70.1  
> DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>   

Ok, there is no preferred mode for your screen. So there's no reason why
the driver would have to choose 1024x768 by default (unless we force it
in xorg.conf with PreferredMode). Now we need to find out why it chooses
1280x800.

> NOTE that this is already with 1024x768 running activated manually.
>   

Yeah, the little start near "1024x768 70.1" confirms this :)

Brice






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