Hi Julien,
I've changed monitors and as soon as I switched monitors the problem
went away. I can haul the old monitor out of my storage unit and try it
out next week to see if the issue is still present.
Cheers!
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 14:37 +0100, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote:
> 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,
>
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