Package: xorg (radeon) Version: 6.9 I recently submit this bug to Xorg, and managed to find a resolution. I've sent this along to add to the bug archive in case anybody else has a similar problem. It was kind of unique in how it came about. =============================================================== Admitedly, this is probably not a bug and a situation of a newbie. However, I have really no clue where to begin with this. I am running Debian Lenny (2.6.26) on a Toshiba Satellite A110. It has a Radeon Xpress 200M video card with a cracked LCD. I attach a Sharp monitor to the VGA port and it works well. I've installed what I think is a "minimal" xserver system, including xterm. After installing the Debian package, I ran X -configure then copied the file into /etc/X11/xorg.conf. When I boot the machine and login I can startx and I get a small console box, about 1/6th of the screen in the top left, and the rest of the screen is the black and white hatch pattern with the X mouse in the middle. Next I Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Ctrl-c to kill the server. The log file is attached. Unfortunately, next time I startx, I get a screen full of fine black and white vertical lines, with bolder (1/4 inch) either white or black lines in between (usually 3 or 4 of them). My guess is the sync rates are getting screwed up somehow, but I have no idea how to figure that out. Nothing shows up in the syslog to indicate any problems, and if I create new Xorg.*.log files in /var/log for each attempt, they are identical. I can't find anything on the web about this because the problem seems far to general or vague. About the only thing I did find is a suggestion to lspci -vvnn to attach for more info...so that is included, along with my xorg.conf file. Anyways, any suggestions on how to proceed would be GREATLY appreciated. One last thing, ultimately I will only need to access the machine via VNC, so I'm wondering if I even need to go through all of this hassle??? Cheers, Christopher #---- FOLLOWUP ------------------------------ FIXED --- I think...(?)
I recieved a reply to my bug report from Julien Cristau suggesting using 7.3 version radeon driver. Wish I had one. I've check the Debian site and both unstable and experimental releases only offer 6.12 releases. Not gonna mess with them. I did try connecting an external mouse, and was actually able to hover over the reduce console area, and use "exit" to stop the server. However, when I restarted I got the same problem of vertical bars, BUT I was able to hover the mouse over the area where the reduce console was supposed to have appeared, and type "exit" to stop the server. This lead me to believe that the server believed the screen was there, even though it didn't appear so. I recalled seeing in the log file a bunch of modeline entries. I guessed that the information there might have been useful. After looking at the Xorg.conf man page I sort of figured out what is supposed to go where. I'm still not sure how the different "Modes" work in the "SubSection Display" entries work, but they don't seem to be harming anything. Anyways, attached is the xorg.conf file I came up with. At the very least, this bug is logged in case anyone else has a similar problem. In the meantime, I plead ignorance of youth :) ATTACHED IN-LINE: xorg.conf ATI Radeon Xpress 200M & Sharp LL-T17A4-B Section "ServerLayout" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "True" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/etc/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "SHP" ModelName "LL-T17A4-B" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC: HorizSync 24.0 - 82.0 VertRefresh 55.0 - 77.0 ### ### ### ADDED WITH CORRECTIONS FROM /var/log/xorg.0.log ### THE "DisplaySize" VALUES **MUST** BE GIVEN IN MILLIMETERS!!! ### IT WAS DETECTED BY X -configure BUT WAS ORIGINALLY COMMENTED OUT ### (II) RADEON(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 34 vert.: 27 DisplaySize 340 270 # mm ### ### ### ADDED WITH CORRECTIONS FROM /var/log/xorg.0.log ### NOT SURE HOW THESE MAP TO THE "Modeline" ENTRIES BELOW ### IF I KNEW THAT, I COULD SPECIFY THE EXACT "Modes" IN THE "SubSection Display" ENTRIES ###(II) RADEON ###(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 720x...@70hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 640x...@60hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 640x...@67hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 640x...@72hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 640x...@75hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 800x...@56hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 800x...@60hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 800x...@72hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 800x...@75hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 832x...@75hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 1024x...@60hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 1024x...@70hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 1024x...@75hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 1280x1...@75hz ###(II) RADEON ###(0): 1152x...@75hz ### ### ### ADDED WITH CORRECTIONS FROM /var/log/xorg.0.log ### ### ### NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE "xorg.0.log" OUTPUT LINE, AND THE "Active" "Modeline" BELOW IT ###(II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: ###(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz) Modeline "1280x1024" 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # (64.0 kHz) Modeline "800x600" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync # (37.9 kHz) Modeline "800x600" 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync # (35.2 kHz) Modeline "640x480" 31.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync # (37.5 kHz) Modeline "640x480" 31.50 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -hsync -vsync # (37.9 kHz) Modeline "640x480" 30.24 640 704 768 864 480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync # (35.0 kHz) Modeline "640x480" 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync # (31.5 kHz) Modeline "720x400" 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync # (31.5 kHz) Modeline "1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # (80.0 kHz) Modeline "1024x768" 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync # (60.1 kHz) Modeline "1024x768" 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # (56.5 kHz) Modeline "1024x768" 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync # (48.4 kHz) Modeline "832x624" 57.28 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync # (49.7 kHz) Modeline "800x600" 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync # (46.9 kHz) Modeline "800x600" 50.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync # (48.1 kHz) Modeline "1152x864" 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync # (67.5 kHz) Modeline "1280x1024" 109.00 1280 1368 1496 1712 1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync # (63.7 kHz) Modeline "1280x960" 101.25 1280 1360 1488 1696 960 963 967 996 -hsync +vsync # (59.7 kHz) Modeline "1280x1024" 122.25 1280 1368 1496 1712 1024 1027 1034 1067 -hsync +vsync # (71.4 kHz) Modeline "1280x1024" 140.75 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1027 1034 1072 -hsync +vsync # (81.5 kHz) Modeline "1152x864" 104.00 1152 1224 1344 1536 864 867 871 905 -hsync +vsync # (67.7 kHz) Modeline "1024x768" 70.75 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 771 775 801 -hsync +vsync # (52.6 kHz) Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>] #Option "BusType" # [<str>] #Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>] #Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i> #Option "AGPMode" # <i> #Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>] #Option "AGPSize" # <i> #Option "GARTSize" # <i> #Option "RingSize" # <i> #Option "BufferSize" # <i> #Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>] #Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] #Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>] #Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>] #Option "FBTexPercent" # <i> #Option "DepthBits" # <i> #Option "PCIAPERSize" # <i> #Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>] #Option "DDCMode" # [<bool>] #Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>] #Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>] #Option "PanelSize" # [<str>] #Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq> #Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # <i> #Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # <i> #Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # <i> #Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # <i> #Option "TunerType" # <i> #Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str> #Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str> #Option "ScalerWidth" # <i> #Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>] #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] #Option "DynamicClocks" # [<bool>] #Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>] #Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>] #Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>] #Option "AccelMethod" # <str> #Option "DRI" # [<bool>] #Option "ConnectorTable" # <str> #Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>] #Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>] #Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>] #Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>] #Option "TVStandard" # <str> #Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>] #Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>] #Option "Int10" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]" BusID "PCI:1:5:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" ### ### ### ADDED "Modes" ENTRY FROM MODELINE VALUES ### ADDED "DefaultDepth" WITH MODELINE VALUES ### FROM: http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xorg.conf.5.html#sect9 ### The first valid mode in this list will be the default display mode for startup. ### Switch to the next mode with Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus, or previous with Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Minus. ### If ... no modes, then the selection will be taken from the built-in VESA standard modes. ### DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x870" "1028x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x870" "1028x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x870" "1028x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480 EndSubSection ### ### ### NOT SURE IF THESE DEPTHS WORK WITH ALL MODES ### COMMENTING THEM OUT SO I DON'T DAMAGE MY DISPLAY!!! ###SubSection "Display" ### Viewport 0 0 ### Depth 1 ### Modes "1280x1024" "1152x870" "1028x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480 ###EndSubSection ###SubSection "Display" ### Viewport 0 0 ### Depth 4 ### Modes "1280x1024" "1152x870" "1028x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480 ###EndSubSection ###SubSection "Display" ### Viewport 0 0 ### Depth 15 ### Modes "1280x1024" "1152x870" "1028x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480 ###EndSubSection EndSection __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! 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