New Monitor Weirdnesses or how do I get Xorg to pay attention to my xorg.conf file?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 03 Dec 2015 21:06:57 +0100 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_L=FCbking?= <thomas.luebking at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2015 20:58:33 CEST, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > This is what it shows:
> 
> Can you please attach the entire log?

The entire log AND my entire xorg.conf are here:

http://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/X11MonitorProbs.zip
Archive:  /extra/X11MonitorProbs.zip
 Length   Method    Size  Ratio   Date   Time   CRC-32    Name
--------  ------  ------- -----   ----   ----   ------    ----
    1812  Defl:N      769  58%  12-03-15 06:21  d0c0c831  xorg.conf
   60582  Defl:N     8416  86%  12-02-15 10:46  9613904e  Xorg.0.log
--------          -------  ---                            -------
   62394             9185  85%                            2 files


> It sees your added modelines, but discards them (and I assume that is
> because of the VESA driver)
> 
> The onlyaccepted modes are
> > (**) VESA(0):  Built-in mode "1024x768"
> > (**) VESA(0):  Built-in mode "800x600"
> > (**) VESA(0):  Built-in mode "640x480"
> 
> So much is for sure.
> 
> 
> My best suggestion would btw. to try the nouveau driver, but
> 
> > 	compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
> > 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
> 
> Are you seriously using Xorg from 2006??
> Any particular reason for doing so?

It is what comes with CentOS 5, based on RHEL 5, which RedHat has maintained, 
complete with backported bug fixes:

sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -q --changelog xorg-x11-drv-vesa|head                  * Mon Feb 14 2011 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 1.3.0-8.3
- vesa-1.3.1-*.patch: Backport various fixes from upstream, and allow mismatch
  between 136[0-8]x768 modes. (#614960)
- Bump xserver requires to a version that includes VBE PanelID.

* Mon Jan 11 2010 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 1.3.0-8.2
- vesa-1.3.0-vbe-dpms.patch: Use VBE's DPMS method, instead of manual VGA
  register writes, so that laptop backlights turn off too. (#494671)

* Mon Jun 04 2007 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 1.3.0-8.1
sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -q --changelog xorg-x11-server-Xorg | head -30
* Thu Dec 11 2014 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> 1.1.1-48.107.el5.centos
- Roll in CentOS Branding

* Wed Dec 10 2014 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 1.1.1-48.107
- CVE-2014-8091 denial of service due to unchecked malloc in client
  authentication (#1168680)
- CVE-2014-8092 integer overflow in X11 core protocol requests when
  calculating memory needs for requests (#1168684)
- CVE-2014-8097 out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset
  values in DBE extension (#1168705)
- CVE-2014-8095 out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset
  values in XInput extension (#1168694)
- CVE-2014-8096 out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset
  values in XC-MISC extension(#1168700)
- CVE-2014-8099 out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset
  values in XVideo extension (#1168710)
- CVE-2014-8100 out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset
  values in Render extension (#1168711)
- CVE-2014-8102 out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset
  values in XFixes extension (#1168714)
- CVE-2014-8101 out of bounds access due to not validating length or offset
  values in RandR extension (#1168713)
- CVE-2014-8093 xorg-x11-server: integer overflow in GLX extension requests
  when calculating memory needs for requests (#1168688)
- CVE-2014-8098 xorg-x11-server: out of bounds access due to not validating
  length or offset values in GLX extension (#1168707)

* Tue Mar 25 2014 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 1.1.1-48.104
- xserver-1.1.1-randr-config-timestamps.patch: Backport timestamp comparison
  fix from upstream RANDR code (#1006076)

So, no, it is not really an Xorg from 2006.  It just has the same version and 
API as the Xorg from 2006, bug and security fixes have been backported.

I use a distro with long term support.  *I* have better things to do than 
spend all of my time dealing with incompatible updates every few months.

> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
>                                                                                                        

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