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Package: installation-reports
uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
When installing Debian 3.1r0a from the distribution CDs, it is not
possible to configure video modes above 800x600. I have verified this
on two machines using different video cards (but connected to the same
monitor through a KVM switch). One machine has an i740 card with 8Mb video
RAM, the other has SiS video on the motherboard with 32Mb video RAM.
Using "autodetect", "medium", or "advanced" makes no difference.
After using the "advanced" configuration, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
shows the correct horizontal and vertical frequencies (in this case
HorizSync 30-83 and VertRefresh 55-75) but makes no reference to any
video modes above 800x600.
Manually editing this file and rebooting produces the correct video
mode (in this case 1280x1024) but uncovers a different bug: the
background is not always redrawn correctly when moving the mouse
cursor, especially the animated "busy" cursor or when repositioning a
window with the mouse. The correct background is restored after
anything else covers it up.
Note that this never occurs at 800x600, so I'm wondering if someone
temporarily patched something to avoid this bug, and forgot to change
it back. At 1280x1024 it is much less severe on the SiS hardware
(possibly due to having more video RAM?) but still occurs occasionally.
This may involve several packages so I'm not sure where to report it,
but the configuration part is obviously related to installing the
system.
/etc/X11/XF86Congig-4 says it was written by dexconf, using data from
the debconf database, but I don't know which package generates that
data during the installation. The mouse cursor bug is presumeably
somewhere else.
800x600 is really not enough pixels to run a serious windowing
system, so I would put fairly high priority on fixing this.
Data from machine 1:
lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82740 (i740) AGP Graphics Accelerator (rev 21)
lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
0000:00:04.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
0000:00:04.2 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
0000:00:04.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02)
0000:00:0a.0 0200: 10b7:9050
0000:01:00.0 0300: 8086:7800 (rev 21)
Data from machine 2:
lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
0000:00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0f.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:00:0f.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
0000:00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: Tekram Technology Co.,Ltd. TRM-S1040 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 31)
lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1039:0730 (rev 02)
0000:00:00.1 0101: 1039:5513 (rev d0)
0000:00:01.0 0601: 1039:0008
0000:00:01.4 0401: 1039:7018 (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 0604: 1039:0001
0000:00:09.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:00:0f.0 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:00:0f.1 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:00:0f.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 02)
0000:00:10.0 0100: 1de1:0391 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1039:6300 (rev 31)
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