Second call for X testers.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:40:10PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > You forgot "make a backup of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for comparison" :-)
> 
> ehm.... quoting myself from my original message:
> 
> Make a copy of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for backup and exit X. login in
> console mode and do in sequence the following 3 tests (please keep the
> same order when executing and reporting):

I skipped ahead to the sequence of steps, of course :-)

> One things is the resolution you want, the other is what the monitor can
> do. They look redundant but they are not.

I think it is redundant for the user.  Why would they want to specify a
different set of modes than what their hardware can do?

> > powerpc desktop: two questions (keyboard layout, mode selection)
> >   This gave me an fbdev configuration with a correct BusID, and 1024x768,
> >   800x600 and 640x480 modes.  However, when X started, the virtual desktop
> >   seemed to be 1280x1024, while the screen was 1024x768, so the entire
> >   bottom panel, and the clock and system tray in the top panel, were off the
> >   edge of the screen, and the background graphics were misaligned.
> 
> This sounds strange.. what modes were written in the config file?
> It looks more that the Mode was 1280x1024 and monitor was forced to go
> down by the frequencies selections. Can you check the modelines in the
> log?

Config and log attached.  Perhaps it was that the virtual size was 1024x768,
but the display was 800x600?  xdpyinfo said 1024x768, though.  Isn't that
the display size?

The log says:

(II) FBDEV(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device...
(II) FBDEV(0):  mode "1024x768" ok
(II) FBDEV(0):  mode "800x600" ok
(II) FBDEV(0):  mode "640x480" ok
(II) FBDEV(0): Checking Modes against monitor...
(--) FBDEV(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
(**) FBDEV(0):  Default mode "800x600": 36.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 35.2 kHz, 56.2 Hz
(II) FBDEV(0): Modeline "800x600"   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
(**) FBDEV(0):  Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(II) FBDEV(0): Modeline "640x480"   25.20  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
(==) FBDEV(0): DPI set to (75, 75)


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 - mdz
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