Bug 109627
| Summary: | ATI 340M - ATI and VESA driver only support 800x600 | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andy Blyler <ajb> | ||||||||
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
| Version: | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2003-12-18 19:55:08 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
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The "vesa" driver is limited to whatever the VESA BIOS permits, and any problems that occur while using the "vesa" driver are thus only fixable by downloading a new video BIOS. As such, since we are unable to fix bugs in ROM BIOS firmware, we do not support the "vesa" driver. It is provided solely as a convenience to end users to be able to try to get some kind of working video instead of nothing at all. The "radeon" driver is the proper driver to use with Radeon IGP hardware. Note that Radeon IGP is not supported at all by XFree86 4.3.0 as released by XFree86.org. The Red Hat radeon driver contains experimental support patches for Radeon IGP which work for some users and may not work for other users. If you attach your X server config file and log file after configuring it with "redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig" to use the "radeon" driver, I can have a look and see if there is any obvious problems that jump out at me, however I do not personally have Radeon IGP hardware to test with, so I may not be able to do much about this problem. XFree86 4.4.0, which will be released in late December or early January or so, will be the first XFree86 release to officially support the Radeon IGP. If we're unable to figure this problem out, you may wish to try 4.4.0 when it is released. I'll be building rpms of it within a month or so. TIA Created attachment 95873 [details]
Screen shot of 1024x768 while using radeon driver
Created attachment 95874 [details]
XF86Config File
Created attachment 95875 [details]
XFree86 log file
Hmm, your screenshot is 1024x768, however your config file and log file are 800x600. Please reconfigure it to use 1024x768, and run the X server again, and attach the log file and config file from the new run. That should provide me with some clues as to what the problem might be. TIA Okay, this is making more sense now. The reason why my display was so messed up was I ran `gnome-display-properties`. Which allowed me to choice 1024x768 as a resolution even though my XF86Config file wasn't set up for it. I am going to research this further. To resolve the issue: I reconfigured it, and selected my monitor (since it is a LCD and wasn't auto detected). And then selected ATI Radeon (Generic). Then I had to go back to the first tab and select 1024x768. It seems a little awkward that you have to go back to a previous tab, maybe they need to be reworked. Closing bug as NOTABUG, since it seems it was just a configuration issue. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Using RedHat 9 with the VESA and ATI driver I could obtain a 1024x768 resolution. But now that I installed Fedora the video flakes out when I try to up the resolution to 1024x768. This is on the same laptop: Compaq Evo N1020v Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-42 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Additional info: