Bug 118860

Created attachment 98740 [details]
/var/log/XFree86.0.log

Created attachment 98741 [details]
lspci -vv

a clean install of fc2t2 doesn't help.

Could you please attach a copy of the file /var/log/XFree86.0.log
after the failure. Also please take a peek at /var/log/messages and
see if there is anything suspicious, but the most important thing is
the X server log file.

I'm sorry, you already attached the log file, my mistake.

I got the ATI driver to work by adding vga=792 to the kernel command
line. I remembered from years ago that that was a fix when I first
started installing RH on Dell laptops. So it's not a perfect fix but
my laptop is now more than a paper weight.

According to the X server log file attached to this report, you
are using a non-Red Hat custom built kernel.  Please update your
installation to the latest rawhide packages available so that you're
running our latest testing codebase, and boot into the official
Red Hat kernel.

If you are able to reproduce this problem using an official Red Hat
built kernel, please attach your X server log and config file, and
/var/log/messages as individual uncompressed file attachments using
the link below, and we will try to troubleshoot further.

Thanks in advance.

This system has always been running a Red Hat kernel. From the log:

OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
(bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040216 (Red
Hat Linux 3.3.3-2.1)) #1 Fri Mar 12 14:01:55 EST 2004

Oops, I was requesting the same info in 2 bug reports, one of which
had a non-Red Hat kernel, and I must have gotten the two crossed.

We still need your config file used during this problem, and the
/var/log/messages file however.  I'll review this again once
they're attached.

Thanks in advance.

Just to update, I'm running current rashide from 11 May including
xorg-x11-6.7.0-2 and kernel-2.6.5-1.358. If I don't have vga=792 on
the kernel command line, I don't get anything displayed. I'm going to
attach the config file, the error I get when I try to reconfig the
display, the xorg log file, and the /var/log/messages with two boots.
The first without vga=792 and the second with.

Created attachment 100170 [details]
xorg.conf

Created attachment 100171 [details]
system-config-display --reconfig error

Created attachment 100172 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Created attachment 100173 [details]
/var/log/messages from two boots

I just did a diff on the xorg log files between non working and
working. There are slight differences as one was started from run
level 3 using startx while the other was started normally from run
level 5 but the panel dimensions and write combining stuff could be
where the problem lies.

[root@millennium tmp]# diff Xorg.0.log /var/log/Xorg.0.log
16c16
< (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue May 11 21:12:48 2004
---
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue May 11 21:18:06 2004
54c54
< (--) using VT number 7
---
> (++) using VT number 7
424c424,425
< (WW) ATI(0): Inconsistent panel horizontal dimension:  1400 and 1401.
---
> (WW) ATI(0): Inconsistent panel horizontal dimension:  1400 and 1399.
> (WW) ATI(0): Inconsistent panel vertical dimension:  1050 and 1049.
435c436
< (==) ATI(0): Write-combining range (0xfd000000,0x800000)
---
> (WW) ATI(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
(0xfd000000,0x800000)
443c444
< (!!) ATI(0): Conflicting XF86Config VertRefresh specification(s)
ignored.
---
> (WW) ATI(0): Extraneous XF86Config VertRefresh specification(s) ignored.
655c656
< (==) ATI(0): Write-combining range (0xfd000000,0x800000)
---
> (WW) ATI(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
(0xfd000000,0x800000)
700c701,703
< AUDIT: Tue May 11 21:13:09 2004: 24533 X: client 5 rejected from
local host
---
> GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 107859
> GetModeLine - hdsp: 1400 hbeg: 1448 hend: 1560 httl: 1688
>               vdsp: 1050 vbeg: 1051 vend: 1054 vttl: 1066 flags: 5
[root@millennium tmp]#

A Dell Inspiron 5000 with a working 1400x1050 configuration in FC1
also requires vga=792 to get anything on screen after an upgrade to FC2
(release). X starts but screen is blank otherwise.

Similar "Inconsistent panel horizontal dimension" messages to above 
in Xorg.0.log

Just wanted to say that I also have a Dell Inspiron 7500, and I was
seeing the exact same problem that Thomas Baker reported here. I can
confirm this bug on Fedora Core 2 final (clean install).

Fortunately, his tip on passing the vga=792 option to the kernel works
like a charm. This option not only allowed me to run startX, but it
also allowed the Fedora Core 2 installer to run. (Without the option,
a blank screen is shown when the installer switches to graphical mode,
and it has to be run in text mode.)

Note that Thomas's xorg.conf also works perfectly for me and allowed
me to get up and running with FC2 on the Inspiron 7500.

Trevor

Does this problem occur with Fedora Core 3 test1 plus all Fedora
development updates, using xorg-x11-6.7.99.902-8?

I tried it on the first CVS release you did a couple of days ago and
it didn't work. I reported the bug to Xorg bugzilla: 

https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1109

but no updates to it have occured. I'll try the latest release this
weekend. (I would have tried it sooner but it didn't seem like the bug
was being addressed since there weren't any updates on the xorg bugzilla.)

Right now, Xorg is in finalization for 6.8.0, and any bug that is
not marked a blocker in bugzilla isn't being directly reviewed for
6.8.0.  I've marked the bug as a candidate for blocker, however
someone will review it and make a decision wether or not to
accept it as a release blocker.

I've added myself to CC on that bug, and we'll track the issue
in the upstream bugzilla now.  Thanks for reporting it there.

Setting status to "UPSTREAM"

Has this bug been fixed?

According to the upstream bug report, it has not yet been investigated
by X.Org developers.  If you'd like to, you can track the bug report
by adding yourself to the CC on the upstream bug report however.  It
is located at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118860

Hope this helps.

Just wanted to note that comment #17 also applies to Fedora Core 3 final.

Hello,
I have the same problem with Fedora Core 4 on my Dell Inspiron 7500. 
I am new with Linux/ Fedora. The solution must be adding "vga = 792" to a file,
but witch file is it? I can't find the files called above. Are they renamed?
Using  a portable isn't very usefull if you have to connect another screen to it...

It gets added to the kernel command line. You put it in /etc/grub.conf on the
kernel line of the kernel you want to boot.

I'm reopening this bug for current rawhide because the upstream bug referenced
in comment #19 has been closed as fixed. Any hope of getting the patch added to
the current rawhide x11?

It's fixed in Xorg CVS HEAD according to the upstream bug report, which
means the X11R7 release will have the fix.  Fedora Core 5 will contain
X11R7, so the fix will automatically be in FC5, and will be available to
people when we integrate X11R7 into rawhide.

Setting status to "NEXTRELEASE" (FC5)