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

[Brice Goglin]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:33:48PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.7.197-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> my 14"(!) VGA-connected 1024x768 _desktop_ LCD was working just fine with my
> config file on 1:6.6.193, however both 1:6.7.197-1 and
> 6.7.198~git20080117.6bd510a2 manage to mess up size detection in a
> spectacularly awful way, it seems (either with or without xorg.conf).
> 
> - there are 12 references to 1024x768 resolution in the log (DDC detection
>   etc.), however it chooses to pick 1280x800 which has never been announced
>   _anywhere_!
> - the DPI calculations are not "WAY off" as in another Debian bug report,
>   they're "rather very extremely off" (147, 145 instead of 89, 92 previously)
> 
> The display size detection of 290x210mm seems _correct_ since it matches
> physical dimensions.

Do you still have these problems with latest packages in unstable?

Brice