RMonitor Behavior On SLES 10 IA64 With ATI Graphics

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:12:22AM -0500, Magolan, John F wrote:
> Matthias,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  This has already been reported via Novell's
> bugzilla.  My main purpose in posting here is to find out whether
> similar problems have been seen in environments other than SLES 10.

Which Bugreport is this exactly?

Best regards,
Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Hopf [mailto:mhopf at suse.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:01 AM
> To: Magolan, John F
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: RMonitor Behavior On SLES 10 IA64 With ATI Graphics
> 
> On Dec 18, 06 10:22:51 -0500, Magolan, John F wrote:
> > The Novell/SuSE SLES 10 Linux release is in use on the ia64 version of
> > our Unisys ES7000/one server.  (For the record, SLES 10 includes X.Org
> > release 6.9.0.)  Our graphic interface device is ATI Rage Mobility.
> > When we try to enter monitor specifications through the SLES SaX2
> > interface the monitor test fails, consistently indicating a frequency
> > error.  We have tried this on a couple of standard monitors from Dell
> > and NEC with the same negative results.  What we always end up with,
> and
> > can't escape, is a 640x480 monitor screen.
> 
> I think this is something you should post in Novell's bugzilla. I'm not
> aware that this issue is already listed there, but I might be mistaken.
> 
> > resolutions to anything reasonable.  On SLES 10, though, using the
> RHEL4
> > input merely causes the frequency error to occur when X is restarted.
> A
> 
> SLES10 and RHEL4 use different versions of Xorg. It might very well be a
> radeon driver regression. Of course, it *might* be related to some IA64
> patch we're applying, but I doubt so.
> 
> Matthias

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