Bug#462582: xserver-xorg-video-ati: regression, size configuration incredibly broken, on bog-standard display size
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:33:48PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.7.197-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> my 14"(!) VGA-connected 1024x768 _desktop_ LCD was working just fine with my
> config file on 1:6.6.193, however both 1:6.7.197-1 and
> 6.7.198~git20080117.6bd510a2 manage to mess up size detection in a
> spectacularly awful way, it seems (either with or without xorg.conf).
>
> - there are 12 references to 1024x768 resolution in the log (DDC detection
> etc.), however it chooses to pick 1280x800 which has never been announced
> _anywhere_!
> - the DPI calculations are not "WAY off" as in another Debian bug report,
> they're "rather very extremely off" (147, 145 instead of 89, 92 previously)
>
> The display size detection of 290x210mm seems _correct_ since it matches
> physical dimensions.
Do you still have these problems with latest packages in unstable?
Brice
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