Bug 84639

Summary: Switching from working X to VT and back causes Vertrefresh to go out of range
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Kloiber <ckloiber>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Chris Kloiber 2003-02-19 22:25:26 UTC 
Complaint received via web support ticket# 227394.
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RH8 up2date as of several days ago.

boot into text mode, run startx, works fine

ctrl-alt-F2 works fine and gives a text console

alt-F7 returns to gui, but screen is shifted to far left, most of display
is black/blank.  Only a couple of inches of gui desktop visible at left side
of screen.  "start here" and "trash" icons visible and selectable.

My or may not be related, but when I switch back to console F1 I see a couple
of error/warnings:

AUDIT: Wed Feb 12 09:42:28 2003: 14279 X: client 4 rejected from local host

and several lines of:

Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0:0"

attached is my X config file
Comment 1 Chris Kloiber 2003-02-19 22:26:20 UTC 
Created attachment 90199 [details]
Customer's XF86Config file
Comment 2 Chris Kloiber 2003-02-19 22:37:45 UTC 
From the description of the display, I thought the monitor is now outside it's
refresh range. The customer says:

Looks like this monitor has built-in protection.  If you try to use synch rates 
outside it's capabilities an on-screen text warning box pops up.

I checked the specs with the manufacturer and set the rates in the config file 
to:

H 30.0-96.0
V 50.0-120.0

At initial boot in text mode the monitor is in Preset#1 31.3x69.8

After startx in gui mode monitor is in Preset#7 60.1x75.1

After ctrl-alt-F2 we're back to Preset#1

But after alt-F7 it's in User#3 55.3x123.2 which is withing the monitor's range 
but not what it was when we entered X the first time.

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It's interesting that the monitor says it's in 123.2 vert refresh when
the specs say 120 is the limit.  This would seem to confirm your earlier
theory that it's just outside the limits, but counters my earlier observation
where the monitor complained about synch too low or too high.
Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2004-01-10 16:46:52 UTC 
Red Hat Linux 8.0 is no longer supported by Red Hat.  Users who have
experienced the problem described in this bug report should upgrade
to a currently supported OS release, such as Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3, Red Hat Linux 9, or Fedora Core 1, as this problem may
possibly be fixed in the newer XFree86 release shipped in the newer
OS releases.  The "s3" video driver itself, is more or less shipped
as-is by us, as it handles legacy hardware, and the driver is not
under development anymore, and has no active upstream maintainers.

Problems that happen with the "s3" driver in our current OS releases,
should be reported directly to XFree86.org at http://bugs.xfree86.org
so that the entire team of developers working on XFree86 are aware
of the problem, and someone who has the problematic hardware might
be able to reproduce and fix the issue.

Closing bug as WONTFIX.