Bug#421058: xserver-xorg-core: with no xorg.conf, selects a resolution higher than the monitor supports

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 1) xrandr.out.1600x1200 is the output of this command when run under X
> with an xorg.conf forcing the max to be 1600x1200.
> 2) xrandr.out.1920x1200 is the output of this command when run under X
> with no xorg.conf at all.

By the way, you might want to try xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.6.192
currently in experimental.

If it doesn't help, there's also the randr-1.2 branch of the upstream
git repository. It might be not as stable as the main branch, but it
should be better at detecting correct modes. I have packaged some
snapshots at
http://alioth.debian.org/~bgoglin-guest/xserver-xorg-video-ati.randr-1.2/

> 3) Xorg.1.log is the log file from the server in (2).  The crash
> happened when I closed down the xterm that was the only client
> running.

I think it's a (unrelated) known problem and already fixed upstream.

Brice