Bug 119797

Summary: Compaq Monitor MV920 is not recognized
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Michel Catudal <mcatudal>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: SuSE Pro 9.3   
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Found By: Customer Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: Requested file
MV920 Monitor spec file

Description Michel Catudal 2005-10-01 04:22:36 UTC
My monitor is a Compaq MV920 and is not in your list. Fedora Core and Ubuntu had
no problem to identify the monitor.

This is not just with SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 but no SuSE installation has ever 
recognized that Compaq monitor which is a 19 inch monitor.

My setup
Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  340 270
  HorizSync    28-96
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "MV920 COLOR MONITOR"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "COMPAQ"
  VertRefresh  50-160
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Comment 1 Michael Radziej 2005-10-02 17:56:10 UTC
Can you please attach /var/log/YaST2?
(see http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST)
Comment 2 Michel Catudal 2005-10-04 03:32:44 UTC
Created attachment 51358 [details]
Requested file

Here is the requested information. It is a little big
so I compressed the directory.
Comment 3 Marcus Schaefer 2005-10-05 15:46:39 UTC
The log doesn't help a lot unfortunately. Could you please 
provide the information from the command: 
 
	hwinfo --monitor 
 
to be called as user root 
 
Thanks 
Comment 4 Michel Catudal 2005-10-06 12:29:21 UTC
Created attachment 51588 [details]
MV920 Monitor spec file

This file has the correct information which hwinfo was
not able to get.
Comment 5 Michel Catudal 2005-10-06 12:31:37 UTC
 hwinfo --monitor
34: None 00.0: 10000 Monitor
  [Created at monitor.87]
  Unique ID: rdCR.IScy3XmM5N8
  Hardware Class: monitor
  Model: "COMPAQ MV920"
  Vendor: CPQ "COMPAQ"
  Device: eisa 0x3027 "COMPAQ MV920"
  Serial ID: "912GA23NC481"
  Size: 36x27 cm
  Resolution: 720x400@70Hz
  Resolution: 640x480@60Hz
  Resolution: 640x480@75Hz
  Resolution: 800x600@75Hz
  Resolution: 832x624@75Hz
  Resolution: 1024x768@75Hz
  Resolution: 1280x1024@75Hz
  Resolution: 640x480@85Hz
  Resolution: 800x600@85Hz
  Resolution: 1024x768@85Hz
  Resolution: 1152x864@85Hz
  Driver Info #0:
    Max. Resolution: 1280x1024
    Vert. Sync Range: 50-160 Hz
    Hor. Sync Range: 30-96 kHz
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

As you can see the information is partly incorrect. The installer didn't
find the monitor in its list. Even if he did find it would most likely
would have refused to give me the resolution I want because it was not
able to find the right max resolution.


Comment 6 Marcus Schaefer 2005-10-07 09:30:07 UTC
Thanks for this information. I added the missing entry to the 
database: 
 
+#============================================== 
+# MV920 
+#---------------------------------------------- 
+COMPAQ:MV920  { 
+ DDC=CPQ3027 
+ Option=DPMS 
+ Hsync=30-96 
+ Resolution=1280x1024 
+ Vsync=50-160 
+} 
 
Comment 7 Michel Catudal 2005-10-08 02:30:37 UTC
You sniff program does not recognize the resolution correctly.
This is why I also gave you the pdf file.

Your sniff program thinks that 1280x1024 is the highest resolution,
this is an error. The highest resolution is 1600x1200 which is the
one I use and it works very well. It is annoying to have to correct
that because the install program thinks that it is not possible to
have the requested resolution.

The Compaq manual gives those data :

MONITOR TYPE
Colour, multi-frequency
MONITOR CHASSIS
96 kHz digital
SCREEN SIZE
19" flat square
VIEWABLE IMAGE AREA
18.0"
DOT PITCH
0.26 mm dot pitch
DISPLAY RESOLUTIONS
 1600 x 1200  75 Hz (max resolution)
 1280 x 1024  75 and 85 Hz (max flicker-free)
 1024 x 768  70, 75 and 85 Hz
 800 x 600  75 and 85 Hz
 640 x 480  60 and 85 Hz
TEXT MODE
720 x 400  70 Hz

HORIZONTAL FREQUENCY
30  96 kHz
VERTICAL FREQUENCY
50  160 Hz