640x480 only res available after f14 - f20 upgrade?
Morgan Read
mstuff at read.org.nz
Mon Mar 17 22:16:24 UTC 2014
On 17/03/14 21:26, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 21:21:57 +0000,
> Morgan Read <mstuff at read.org.nz> wrote:
>>
>> I'd really appreciate anybody pointing me in the right direction(s) - I
>> suspect I've just not done something really straight forward as it seems
>> very strange that this old HP ProLiant ML 150 and equally old Dell
>> 1703FP monitor combo which worked fine under f14 now doesn't under f20.
>
> Does that monitor do EDID? If it doesn't or returns bogus information,
> that could be what is triggering the problem. In which case using an
> xorg.conf file to state the capabilities of your monitor might help.
Hi Bruno, thanks for coming back to me. This is from the Xorg.log:
...
> [ 22.238] (II) modesetting(0): Serial No: 2Y31741AD165
> [ 22.238] (II) modesetting(0): Monitor name: DELL 1703FP
> [ 22.238] (II) modesetting(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 76 Hz, H min:
> 30 H max: 80 kHz, PixClock max 145 MHz
> [ 22.238] (II) modesetting(0): EDID (in hex):
> [ 22.238] (II) modesetting(0): 00ffffffffffff0010ac103035363144
> [ 22.238] (II) modesetting(0): 020e01030e221b78ee8706a55c479c25
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): 1e4f54a54b00714f8180010101010101
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): 010101010101302a009851002a403070
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): 1300520e1100001e000000ff00325933
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): 3137343141443136350a000000fc0044
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): 454c4c203137303346500a20000000fd
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): 00384c1e500e000a202020202020001e
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Printing probed modes for output VGA-0
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Modeline "640x480"x75.0 31.50 640
> 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Modeline "640x480"x60.0 25.20 640
> 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Modeline "720x400"x70.1 28.32 720
> 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Output VGA-0 connected
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Output VGA-0 using initial mode
> 640x480 +0+0
> [ 22.239] (II) modesetting(0): Using default gamma of (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> unless otherwise stated.
> [ 22.239] (==) modesetting(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
...
That looks like it does do EDID?
I've done this to no effect in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d :
> 40-monitor.conf
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "VGA1"
> Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
> EndSection
>
> Restart your X system.
>
> If it doesn't work try creating the next two files in the same path, and restarting again:
>
> 30-graphic.conf
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Intel Integrated"
> Driver "intel"
> EndSection
>
> 50-screen.conf
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
But, without any effect?
What's so frustrating is that this used to work...
Thanks,
M.
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Morgan Read
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