Bug 15526 - wrong initial mode selected - black screen
Summary: wrong initial mode selected - black screen
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214105
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Reported: 2008-04-15 15:26 UTC by Tormod Volden
Modified: 2008-04-16 16:45 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Xorg.0.log with ModeDebug, BusType PCI and DRI off (62.12 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-15 15:26 UTC, Tormod Volden
no flags Details
ddcprobe output (1.45 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-15 15:28 UTC, Tormod Volden
no flags Details

Description Tormod Volden 2008-04-15 15:26:57 UTC
Created attachment 15942 [details]
Xorg.0.log with ModeDebug, BusType PCI and DRI off  

Reported in Ubuntu Hardy using -ati driver from git 2008-04-04 and xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu6, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214105

At start-up an initial mode of 1440x900 is selected, which makes the monitor go black. ddcprobe does not list this resolution, but it appears in the "probed modes".

ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP). (DRI was turned off in the attached log, since the AGP  speed mismatch would freeze the computer.)
Comment 1 Tormod Volden 2008-04-15 15:28:11 UTC
Created attachment 15943 [details]
ddcprobe output
Comment 2 Dave Airlie 2008-04-15 16:46:25 UTC
if your xorg.conf has a monitor section please remove it..

Comment 3 Tormod Volden 2008-04-16 14:25:42 UTC
Thanks, removing the Monitor section did the trick. How does it work? Is another way of selection done if monitor frequencies are specified? Is the ddc probing then ignored?
Comment 4 Dave Airlie 2008-04-16 16:45:07 UTC
If there is no monitor section we just believe the monitor, if there is a monitor section we check the modes against the constraints of the monitor section, which means the timings in the monitor section constrain the modes wrongly.


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