Bug#268432: xserver-xfree86: monitor is put into powersave mode on X startup

[Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net>]

Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 01:00 schrieb Branden Robinson:
> Sorry it has taken a while to get back to you about this.
>
> It's probably trying to drive the monitor at a frequency the monitor doesn't
> like.  Do you have the monitor configured as per the manufacturer's 
> recommendations? 

Yes, of course.  See one of my previous mails:

> > Especially, the settings for horizontal and vertical sync ranges [...] are
> > exactly those given in my monitor's documentation.

I want to add a comment.  In an earlier mail, I wrote:

> > So obviously the lack of suitable 24 bit color depth modes leads to the
> > problem with sarge's xserver-xfree86.  I changed the color depth to 16
> > under sarge and it worked. 

My speculation then was that the cause of this problem was insufficient card 
memory.  The problem occured when I was trying a resolution of 1024 x 768 
with 24 bit color depth which is too much for 2 MB card memory.  However, 
meanwhile, I found out that the problem is also present when I try to use a 
resolution of 800 x 600 with 24 bit color depth where the memory *is* 
sufficient.  So it seems as if there was a general problem with 24 bit color 
depth.