Regressions when upgrading 7.2 -> 7.4, ATI Radeon 9250 PCI

Jeremy Henty onepoint at starurchin.org
Sun Apr 19 11:33:51 PDT 2009


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:49:56PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:

> In the bad case, the 1600x1200 mode is getting picked.  The mode comes
> from the EDID in your monitor:
> (II) RADEON(0): clock: 260.0 MHz   Image Size:  54 x 3688 mm
> (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1600  h_sync: 1664  h_sync_end 1856
> h_blank_end 2160 h_border: 17
> (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1200  v_sync: 1201  v_sync_end 1204
> v_blanking: 1250 v_border: 0
> 
> The physical size is obviously wrong.

Is  that  a  bug  in  the  driver  or  is  my  monitor  sending  bogus
information?

> Does your monitor  support 1600x1200?  We'd have to  add a quirk for
> your monitor if the 1600x1200 mode is indeed bogus.

According  the manual  it supports  1600x1200 at 80Hz, but  I  have never
pushed it  that far.   (I'm squinting  enough as it  is.  :-)  It's an
Iiyama Vision Master 450.

Another thing: after fixing things by adding the Modes lines there was
a fonts problem: all text in the Icewm manus and dialogs, and also GTK
and  Qt widgets  (but *not*  FLTK widgets)  was rendered  as  a minute
scribble.  It  looked as though  everything was rendered in  2-3 pixel
type!  The fix  was to uncomment the line "#DisplaySize  360 270 # mm"
in the configuration.  I think that forces the server to calculate the
DPI from the real display size.

Are any of these problems to  do with my card not being recognised, or
is that a separate issue?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Jeremy Henty



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