Today's Gutsy updates broke my display

[Michael Bach (gmx)]

Art Alexion wrote:
> On Monday 10 September 2007 14:39:28 Michael Bach (gmx) wrote:
>> 1.) Is the black band already present when you boot (grub-menu if any,
>> boot splash)?
> 
> No.  Nor is it visible  on tty3 or tty1 (runlevel 3)  Only with X at every 
> resolution.
> 
>> 2.) Change the refresh rate in xorg.conf and see what happens.
> 
> Please be more specific.  

You could boot the system with knoppix or a working ubuntu flavor and
see how the automatic hardware detection configures the refresh rates
(xorg.conf).
Without knoppix/ubuntu, you can safely try a refresh rate of 70Hz. Are
you providng a single value (I assume that would be the 60Hz) or a range?

Else, without changing refresh rates, you can try to switch to the X
frame buffer driver. This will reduce graphics performance, but since
the frame-buffer boot-splash is ok, chances are that X will be ok as well.
The driver is called "vesafb" or only "vesa". Can somebody please
confirm or correct on the driver name?!
If the frame-buffer works, that would show that you're ok with the
refresh rates.

However, what is strange is, that you're saying the band does not appear
on screen-shots. It sounds like as there may be something wrong with the
graphics drivers. Have you gone through the gutsy changelogs to find
anything happened to the graphics-drivers?

> 
> The monitor likes 1280x1024 @ 60hz
> 
> The following provides further details
> Display Mode		Horizontal	Vertical	Pixel Clock	Sync Polarity (hor./vert.)
> VESA, 1280 x 1024  	64.0  		60.0  		108.0  		+/+
> VESA, 1280 x 1024  	80.0  		75.0  		135.0  		+/+
> 
> One last thing, version 2.11.92 of Evolution, which version is part of Gutsy, 
> is needed for my work.  The version in Feisty does not access certain 
> necessary features on an Exchange server.  So, with the monitor problem, I 
> upgraded the xubuntu feisty box to gutsy, and now the same problem is there 
> too.  It was not present on feisty today, nor was the problem present with 
> Gutsy last week.
> 
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