Bug#434297: xserver-xorg-video-intel: GM965 incorrectly probe the TV as being connected. various symptoms.
forwarded 434297 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11366
tags 434297 +fixed-upstream
thank you
Franklin Piat wrote:
> This bug have many symptoms / effects :
>
> - Can't unlock gnome-screen saver : the screen is black. Actually one
> can still type his password to unlock... most people just reboot ;(
> (because of this bug plus #420339)
>
> - Gnome pannel isn't displayed full screen. (restricted to 1024x768)
>
> - KDE pannel isn't displayed full screen. (restricted to 1024x768)
>
> - Application don't maximize to full screen. (restricted to 1024x768)
>
> - randr tools are unusable (xrandr, grandr...). error message like
> "xrandr: Output TV is not disconnected but has no modes"
>
It could help if you disable the output completely with
xrandr --output TV --off
or if you add a random mode to the TV output to remove the warning
xrandr --addmode TV 800x600
> But since this is a repeated problem, upstream seems to plan to fix it :
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11366
>
Right, TV support may still be far from perfect, but this upstream bug
seems to be fixed upstream now.
> BTW : could you update the (4)intel manpage with the "Ignore" option
> described http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-July/026340.html
> as it is the best way to bypass the problem, currently.
>
Since you seem to follow upstream closely, you should probably request
this directly to them. We try to not modify manpages too much without a
good reason. Having them fix it and us update is much easier to maintain
in the long term.
thanks,
Brice
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