Subject: Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode
after reboot
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0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage
128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 255 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48
Region 0: Memory at 94000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Region 1: I/O ports at f0000400 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=16K]
Expansion ROM at f1000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh-
GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
Command: RQ=8 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP+ GART64-
64bit- FW- Rate=x1
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME
(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
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All went as expected during the install. However, after the reboot,
the screen came up in 800x600 mode and could not be changed.
I finall had to edit the xorg.conf file.
Here's the diff:
$ diff xorg.conf xorg.conf.ORIG
37,40c37
< Identifier "DELL 2001FP"
< Option "DPMS"
< HorizSync 31-80
< VertRefresh 56-76
---
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
45,49c42
< Monitor "DELL 2001FP"
< SubSection "Display"
< Depth 24
< Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1272x1017"
"1024x768" "880x660" "800x600" "760x608" "720x400" "640x480"
< EndSubSection
---
Monitor "Configured Monitor"