Bug#428091: Display has wrong colours and is offset
Hello Andrew Ruthven,
Back in 2007 you filled bug #428091, the discussion lasted till 2008...
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:40:33AM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> Hi Brice,
>
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 09:38 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Interestingy enough if my monitor is turned off then X starts up okay.
> > > I'm guessing because there is no DDC data to fetch, so X doesn't try and
> > > be clever about the modelines.
> > >
> > > I've attached the logfile for a working X session (the one I'm currently
> > > using).
>
> > Does this problem still apply with today xserver-xorg-core and
> > xserver-xorg-video-mga from unstable? If so, can you send the
> > corresponding config and log? I will forward the bug upstream.
I don't know if it was forwarded upstream, I found that one that
looks similar: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4306
>
> Yes this problem is still happening. I've tracked it down a bit
> further, it doesn't happen when X is using a depth of 24 bpp, but does
> with 16 (I haven't tried other depths).
>
> Running 'startx' with no config file gives me a working X display
> running at 1280x800 at 60 Hz (the highest resolution the card can drive
> at 24 bpp).
>
> Running 'startx -- -depth 16' with no config file gives me an offset X
> display with funny colours running at 1600x1200 at 75Hz (the highest
> resolution my monitor can handle).
>
> By disabling DDC and providing reasonable horizontal and vertical ranges
> I can happily run 1600x1200 at 75Hz.
>
> I have attached log files for both test runs, the first run at 24 bpp is
> okay-24bpp.log and the second run is bad-16bpp.log.
>
> Versions:
>
> xserver-xorg-core:
> Installed: 2:1.4.1~git20080131-2
> Candidate: 2:1.4.1~git20080131-2
> xserver-xorg-video-mga:
> Installed: 1:1.4.8.dfsg.1-1
> Candidate: 1:1.4.8.dfsg.1-1
>
> Cheers!
>
The Xserver package have evolved since that time, are you still
experiencing this issue ?
If not, can you tell me the versions you are using so I can close the
bug accordingly.
Thanks for your time,
Best Regards,
--
Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.blogsite.org>
http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <julien@silicone.homelinux.org>
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