Bug 152466

Summary:	Philips Brilliance 200W widescreen monitor not configurable
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Holger Macht <hmacht>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Holger Macht 2006-02-21 12:21:54 UTC

I try to configure a Philips Brilliance 200W monitor to work with my laptop (analogue output). The model is not listed in sax2. I selected "Activate Dual Head Mode" and then chose a resolution of 1680x1050 in WSXGA+ (that's what the manual sais is best). But when starting X the resolution falls back to 1280x1024@60Hz. The product description of the monitor lists:

Vertical refresh rate
	56Hz-85Hz
	
Horizontal Frequency
	30kHz-93kHz (Analog input)

I tried to set these values manually but it had no effect.

Pleae tell me what information you need...

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2006-02-21 12:26:51 UTC

44 models have been ordered by SuSE you are the 14th person having
problems with it. Fix is already available in stable

Comment 2 Holger Macht 2006-02-21 12:50:26 UTC

But does not work for me. I installed all sax packages from stable and selected model "Philips 200W" and then a resolution of 1680x1050. Same result. I get a resolution of 1280x1024. Maybe it has something todo with the multihead environment?

Comment 3 Marcus Schaefer 2006-02-21 16:12:40 UTC

1) if you have installed the packages from stable and call
   sax2 -r (because your hardware has changed) there mustn't be any
   need to select a monitor because it gets autodetected

2) if you are using a Intel graphics chip the 1680x1050 are not part
   of the VESA BIOS. SaX will write that information into the BIOS
   after the configuration. If you call it the first time without patched
   bios the server will start in 1280x1024 but the GUI will suggest
   1680x1050

I tested exactly that on my system and it works. If you change your
hardware and don't call sax with -r the old cache is used... RTFM

Comment 4 Holger Macht 2006-05-02 07:10:23 UTC

Monitor gets autodetected, but I still don't get the full resolution. Sorry, but I still can't get the monitor to work together with my notebook with RC3, reopening...

Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2006-05-02 07:14:50 UTC

I'm pretty sure your laptop has an Intel chip ?

Comment 6 Marcus Schaefer 2006-05-02 07:21:44 UTC

problem was that the native panel resolution is 1400x1050 and 
the radeon driver doesn't allow to use this resolution with a higher
external one. The binary fglrx driver can do this

Regards
Marcus