S-ATA, display refresh rate problems and some feedback

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:37:15AM +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
>
> > Next problem: During installation of the Xserver, debconf asked me to
> > select a set of resolutions to make the highest one of them the default.
> > Daniel Stone told me that this would be a bug.

No it is not a bug. ddc probe is very dependent on video card/monitor
combinantion. If resolutions is not detected we need to ask the user for
sane defaults.


> > Also my frequency ranges in the XF86Config-4 were set much too low, so
> > I had to edit it manually to avoid horrid flickering.

When we guess frequency ranges from resolutions we need to keep them at
the minimum, since we don't know if:

a) the user did a mistake selecting the resolution
b) the monitor is capable of doing what the video card can

in this way X will almost always come up without burning your hardware and
your eyes.

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 is a better option than editing the
config manually.

> > Both seems to suggest that my monitor wasn't properly detected, which
> > makes sense, because it's also not detected by Fedora. In Fedora, it
> > offers me a list of monitors to chose from and weirdly, it contains a
> > lot of very similar monitor types, but never my exact model. The
> > Fedora list has been the same since Red Hat 8. My monitor is a
> > "SAMSUNG SyncMaster 950p+" (it's not a very old or no- name monitor)
> > and the suggested frequency ranges for it are: H: 30 - 110kHz V: 50 -
> > 160Hz Hopefully some day it will be configured automatically. :) (My
> > graphics card is a Geforce 4 Ti4600, but this one was found and
> > configured correctly)
>
> Likewise, please file a bug in bugzilla.

Please do, but there is not much we can really do about it.

Thanks for your report!
Fabio

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