tag 175911 + moreinfo retitle 175911 xserver-xfree86: [mga] server choosing bad modelines on G550 severity 175911 normal thanks On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:06:47AM +1100, Stuart Lamble wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.2.1-4 > Severity: important > > See the attached XF86Config-4 file. When I use this file with the > XFree86-supplied mga driver, the monitor on my desk displays a > message -- literally: > > Attention > Out the range Hmm, gotta love that Engrish. > H: 114.5 KHz > V: 107.0 Hz How big is your monitor? Taken together that's a fairly high pixel clock requirement, but the individual frequences aren't completely unreasonable. 21" CRTs can generally hsync from 30-130 kHz and vrefresh from 60 to 160 Hz. > (which I take to mean that the video card is producing a signal outside > the range that the monitor will accept.) Most likely, yes. > Apart from that message, the display is blank. > > Downloading the Matrox Linux beta mga drivers and installing them over > the top of the XFree drivers fixes the problem (with the caveat that I > need to use a software mouse cursor). In fact, as I have just discovered, > merely adding the mga_hal_drv.o file from those drivers fixes the problem. It's probably just changing the driver's modeline preferences. It should be possible to get satisfaction even without mga_hal_drv by using a more conservative video mode. > Does XFree include the source for a mga_hal_drv.o driver? No, it's proprietary to Matrox, the source code is not available, and it's not part of the XFree86 codebase. > If so, I would suggest that it probably needs to be included in the > xserver-xfree86 package. (A change to the MANIFEST.i386 file? I > haven't looked closely enough at the package generating scripts to be > able to tell what else might need to be changed.) I simply can't do it. I do not have access to the mga_hal_drv source, it's not part of the XFree86 packages, and I cannot support it. > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "HP 91" > HorizSync 30-95 > VertRefresh 50-160 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection Hmm. 30-95 and the X server didn't toss a modeline with an hsync requirement of 114.5 kHz? Please supply this bug with your XFree86.0.log, as described in the XF86Config(7) manual page. -- G. Branden Robinson | Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire to a church of your branden@debian.org | choice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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