Bug 116837

Summary:	Sax2 can't set maximum display resolution
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Börje Jonsson <b.jonsson>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ms
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	SUSE Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Log from command sax2 -r

Description Börje Jonsson 2005-09-13 18:15:17 UTC

When configuring X-windows through Sax2 it is not possible to set the resolution
to the laptops maximum resolution, 1024*768.
Hardware is a Dell Latitude CPx. Graphic card is (according to Sax) Mach64LM/Dell.
I can choose display and screen resolution to 1024*768 but when testing it falls
back to 800*600.
Ubuntu, Knoppix and Windows 2000 works with 1024*768.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-14 07:33:37 UTC

Hmm, I'm sorry but without logs it is difficult to debug what happens  
if you don't mind call the following command from runlevel 3 as user root 
 
   sax2 -r 
 
now click on "change configuration" and setup the 1024x768 resolution as 
you did before. After this test your configuration... the problem should  
appear now if I understand you correctly. At this stage cancel the test 
and exit sax. You are back on the console and can send me the file 
 
   /var/log/SaX.log 
 
Tanks

Comment 2 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-15 08:13:02 UTC

10.0 has been shipped, remind this one

Comment 3 Börje Jonsson 2005-09-15 18:22:13 UTC

Created attachment 50064 [details]
Log from command sax2 -r

Comment 4 Börje Jonsson 2005-09-19 19:36:11 UTC

Any results from the attached logfile?

Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-20 08:29:07 UTC

Oh I see the card isn't part of our database therefore the fbdev   
driver is used. While using this driver resolution changes are not   
possible. You can try to call sax2 with the following option   
   
    sax2 -m 0=ati 
 
Stefan could you add the card to the CDB. 
 
Thanks

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-20 08:36:23 UTC

Pleast test first, if the driver works for you. I remember seen so many 
complaints that the ati driver does not work with that ATI chip (4c4d), so I 
decided to configure it with the fbdev driver.

Comment 7 Börje Jonsson 2005-09-20 16:53:13 UTC

Sorry, it's not working. The screen displays a dark background that slowly turns
to white, or rather light grey. No data is seen on this screen.
I have to kill it with Ctrl-Alt-backspace.

Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-20 17:44:07 UTC

Use 1024x768 as framebuffer resolution, i.e. edit /boot/grub/menu.lst      
and set "vga=0x317". Probably this currently set to  "vga=0x314". Try again. 
Sometimes this help.  
 
Otherwise use "fbdev" driver as before ("sax2 -r"), but this time in 1024x768 
resolution.

Comment 9 Börje Jonsson 2005-09-20 21:07:39 UTC

Great, it works now with the ati driver!

Thanks.