Bug 21548

Summary: Driver problem on ES100
Product: xorg Reporter: Stefano Rosellini <s.rosellini>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Log of X using ati driver none

Description Stefano Rosellini 2009-05-04 10:20:29 UTC 
I have a HP Proliant ML 370 G5 server with ATI ES1000 PCI video card with Linux Mandriva 2008.1 installed on.
Then I have a 1280x1024 Belinea Monitor which is correctly configured in xorg (I tried either PnP and direct frequency interval that work correcty with other PC).

If I use 'ati' driver I can get 1280x1024 resolution but, indipendently from resolution, colors is overexposed making graphics unusable.

If i use 'vesa' driver I can get only 1024x768.

The strange thing is that if I start X using 'ati' driver, then I exit from X and I enter again with 'vesa' driver, I get 1280x1024. It seems that RAMDAC on card gets reprogrammed by 'ati' driver. The problem is that, rebooting, the 'vesa' resolution falls back to 1024x768.

LAST NOTE: Using 'vesa' driver PnP doesn't work (monitor-edid command reply nothing!).

Any solution or workaround?
Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2009-12-06 22:12:24 UTC 
Please attach your xorg log and config.
Comment 2 Stefano Rosellini 2009-12-09 00:20:09 UTC 
Created attachment 31872 [details]
My xorg.conf
Comment 3 Stefano Rosellini 2009-12-09 00:20:47 UTC 
Created attachment 31873 [details]
Log of X using ati driver
Comment 4 Stefano Rosellini 2009-12-09 00:25:09 UTC 
Other notes...
The colors are not exactly overexposed; they seems altered: yellow is ok but green is white.
If I switch on text console (CRTL-ALT-F1),  the colors are very dark and green characters are purple!
Comment 5 Alex Deucher 2009-12-09 08:03:51 UTC 
You are using a really old version of the driver.  This should be fixed in the xf86-video-ati 6.12.4 or git master.

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