855GM not changing resolutions for games

[Alan Hourihane]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:36 -0600, Wayne Smith wrote:
> On Saturday 21 January 2006 4:24 am, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:16 -0600, Wayne Smith wrote:
> > > On Friday 20 January 2006 4:08 pm, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > Does adding
> > > >
> > > > Option  "NoDDC"
> > > >
> > > > to your Device Section fix it ?
> > > >
> > > > Alan.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, no.  I discovered that option (byproduct of solving
> > > problems ;)  ) and tried setting it to "true", but the module (ddc) is
> > > still loaded, and the error message persists.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the idea, though.  Keep 'em comin...
> >
> > Can you attach a log with that specified so I can see what's going on.
> >
> > Alan.
> 
> Okay, maybe it was because I tried so many different things yesterday, but I 
> passed the option "NoDDC" today, and it eliminates the error.  However, it 
> still uses a range that I do NOT specifiy, the one that it used when it 
> kicked the error, 45.71-50.33.  It then says that it will only use the 
> "built-in" modes of 1280x800 and 1024x768.  The video bios still shows the 
> other, desired modes when using 855resolution and 915 resolution.
> 
> Now the odd thing is that when I use 6.8.2, the HorizSync gets set to the 
> range I specify (30-50), and then kicks 1280x800 out because it doesn't fall 
> into that range.  When I run 6.8.2 w/o specifying the HorizSync, then it says 
> it's using the "default" range of 28-33, and includes all desired modes 
> (1280x800, 1024x768, 800x600, and 640x480).
> 
> I think the real issue is why my HorizSync does not seem to be honored in 6.9 
> like it is in 6.8.2, and why Xorg is defaulting to the much higher hsync 
> range in 6.9.
> 
> xorg.conf:  http://staff.norman.k12.ok.us/~wsmith/xorg.conf
> 
> xorg log:  http://staff.norman.k12.ok.us/~wsmith/Xorg.0.log

Can you just try switching the Driver from i810 to vesa and see if the
same problem happens ?

Alan.