Bug 113697

Summary:	X.Org does not properly handle X700 Mobility screen resolutions
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	William Beebe <wbeebe>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Xorg log xorg configuration file SAX2 xorg configuration file. SAX2 based Xorg log.

Description William Beebe 2005-08-28 20:21:53 UTC

System is a Gateway M680XL notebook with an ATI Mobility X700. Normal resolution
under Windows XP is 1680 x 1050 on a 17" screen. During second stage
installation of SuSE 10 Beta 3 the installation program properly detected the
graphics chip and allowed me to select the 1680 x 1050 resolution. However, when
the system finally attempted to boot into my account, the screen was totally black.

I downloaded the latest ATI driver for Linux, installed it, and used fglrxconfig
to create an xorg.conf file that finally allowed me to see the graphics screen.
Unfortunately the resolution is at 1280 x 1024.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-28 21:20:44 UTC

Probably I cannot help about the ATI "fglrx" driver, but for the radeon driver 
I would need your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf to have a look at 
it.

Comment 2 William Beebe 2005-08-28 22:25:59 UTC

Created attachment 47914 [details]
Xorg log

Xorg.0.log that was requested.

Comment 3 William Beebe 2005-08-28 22:26:38 UTC

Created attachment 47916 [details]
xorg configuration file

xorg.conf file that was requested.

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-29 04:18:46 UTC

Sorry, but these are the config and log files for the "fglrx" driver. Please 
reconfigure your gfx card with SaX2 "sax2 -r -a" to use the radeon driver 
instead and attach the new config and log files.

Comment 5 William Beebe 2005-08-29 14:52:07 UTC

Created attachment 48023 [details]
SAX2 xorg configuration file.

Comment 6 William Beebe 2005-08-29 14:53:17 UTC

Created attachment 48027 [details]
SAX2 based Xorg log.

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-29 15:12:06 UTC

Hmm ... nothing obvious I could find.

Comment 8 Matthias Hopf 2005-08-29 15:34:35 UTC

The installation system uses the Vesa driver, which uses the BIOS for mode
setting. In your case (and probably in your case only) this works better than
the one from the radeon driver.

The radeon driver calculates modelines with the general timing formula (gtf),
but several LCDs need different timing information. Unluckily, I don't remember
how to calculate them. I have seen a laptop once that didn't work with gtf, but
worked with the other timing formula.

The fglrx driver is currently broken WRT modelines. That is, it cannot use
irregular / unusual settings like your 1680x1050 ATM.

Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-29 21:24:45 UTC

Due to lack of this specific hardware we unfortunately cannot investigate this 
any further ATM. Setting to LATER therefore. What you can try is to use 
another color depth or resolution.

Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-06 06:34:32 UTC

reopen to close as duplicate.

Comment 11 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-06 06:34:56 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115283 ***