Bug 479601

Summary: Booting F10 Live CD, monitor shows "Out of Range" when starting X
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chuck <cericson46>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-mgaAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 10CC: cericson46, vedran, xgl-maint
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Hardware: i686   
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Xorg.0.log
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Xorg.0.log from F8 system
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xorg.conf.new
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xorg.conf.new
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Xorg.0.log.new
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xorg.conf.vesa
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Xorg.0.log.vesa none

Description Chuck 2009-01-11 23:13:28 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081216 Fedora/2.0.0.19-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.19

Preparing to upgrade my F8 system to F10. Downloaded and created Live CD. CD has been verified and also used successfully to build F10 system on other hardware with ATI video adapter.

When I boot CD on current system with Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 85) things seem to go fine until X is started. At that time the monitor shows "Out of Range" box.

Pressing ESC during system load shows no obvious problems except:
1. When stating udev the monitor will go completely blank for a short time. It will come back with the OK but previous text is gone.
2. Last text on monitor before problem is starting CUPS with OK.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot F10 Live CD

Actual Results:  
Monitor shows "Out of Range" box. Still activity on CD. If left running monitor will occasionally go to blank and then "Out of Range" box reappears after a couple of seconds. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will not always interrupt X server.

Expected Results:  
Expected results would be to continue to show desktop.

Have located other similar bugs listed here or Fedora Forum that mentioned Matrox video adapters but not under F10. Most were unresolved but did try any suggestions without success.

I did boot with "linux 3" to bring up system and logged in as root. System seems to be fine until I run startx. 

Since no /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists I built one from the file as it exists on current F8 system. Same results except I was able to break in easier with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

Comment 1 Chuck 2009-01-11 23:14:50 UTC
Created attachment 328684 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 2 Chuck 2009-01-12 13:29:32 UTC
Created attachment 328731 [details]
Xorg.0.log from F8 system

For comparison, Xorg.0.log from current F8 system

Comment 3 Chuck 2009-02-06 22:49:45 UTC
Maybe I made the priority on this too low, since nothing seems to be happening. Please upgrade to High Priority.

Is this problem similar to Bug 477102 before they switched out the Matrox video card?

Can you verify that F10 will operate correctly with the Matrox video card if build from standard distribution?

Comment 4 Chuck 2009-02-06 23:48:26 UTC
Created attachment 331172 [details]
xorg.conf.new

Comment 5 Chuck 2009-02-06 23:49:53 UTC
Created attachment 331173 [details]
xorg.conf.new

Comment 6 Chuck 2009-02-06 23:50:46 UTC
Created attachment 331174 [details]
Xorg.0.log.new

Comment 7 Chuck 2009-02-06 23:51:15 UTC
Created attachment 331175 [details]
xorg.conf.vesa

Comment 8 Chuck 2009-02-06 23:51:47 UTC
Created attachment 331176 [details]
Xorg.0.log.vesa

Comment 9 Chuck 2009-02-07 00:00:58 UTC
Tried some variations with no success:

A) Build new xorg.conf
  1) Booted F10 Live CD to level 3 (text mode
  2) Ran "X -configure" to build xorg.conf.new
  3) Start X with "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new"
  4) Same problem, monitor shows "out of range"
  5) Stopped X with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE
  6) Saved xorg.conf.new and Xorg.0.log.new (Attached)

B) Use VESA driver
  1) Edit xorg.conf.new to xorg.conf.vesa to load vesa driver in place of mga driver
  2) Start X with "X -config /root/x.org.conf.vesa"
  3) Monitor went to full gray screen
  4) Stopped X with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE

Comment 10 Chuck 2009-02-07 00:04:34 UTC
Last comment ended premature. Append the following:

B) Use VESA driver
  1) Edit xorg.conf.new to xorg.conf.vesa to load vesa driver in place of mga
driver
  2) Start X with "X -config /root/x.org.conf.vesa"
  3) Monitor went to full gray screen
  4) Stopped X with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE
  5) Saved xorg.conf.vesa and Xorg.0.log.new (Attached)

Suggestions?

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Comment 12 Vedran Miletić 2009-11-28 09:09:47 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 446726 ***