flat panel not accepting non-native res after dist-upgrade
I recently spent an afternoon on a major dist-upgrade on my daughter's
computer. It is running Sid with 2.6.15, latest nvidia driver, xorg from
Sid. After the dist-upgrade and installation of newest nvidia, I could not
get into KDE from kdm - determined from debian-kde that the problem was a
missing Xsession file, recommended fix was to rename Xsession-xfree86 (or
similar) to Xsession - after that, most things seem to work.
However: apps that request fullscreen video in non-native resolution (such as
pp-racer, or Tuxmath with fullscreen, both of which use SDL) get a bizarre
display, somewhat like a widescreen DVD playing on a fullscreen TV, along
with a moving box saying "Input Not Supported". The same happens if I change
resolution using Ctr-Alt-'+'. This did not happen before the upgrade. I
have tried changing to the vesa or nv drivers with no difference. I wondered
if somehow X is now requesting too high a refresh rate, but dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg no longer gives me the option to select resolutions and refresh
rates. My other computer is also running all the latest Sid with a flat
panel monitor and the nvidia driver, and it does not have this problems. Any
hints would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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David Bruce
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