RMonitor Behavior On SLES 10 IA64 With ATI Graphics

[Magolan, John F]

There are two entries related to SLES 10 graphics issues on IA64 systems, 162594 and 202341.  We did not originate either, but have seen both problems and have attached ourselves to the reports.  

John Magolan
Unisys Tredyffrin K205-4
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Dirsch [mailto:sndirsch at suse.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:59 AM
To: Magolan, John F
Cc: Matthias Hopf; xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: RMonitor Behavior On SLES 10 IA64 With ATI Graphics

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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