Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 202336
Using vga=0x317 on kernel boot line causes monitor "out of range" error
Last modified: 2007-12-10 12:23:33 EST
Description of problem: When using vga=0x317 on grub's kernel boot line, starting X either normally or to system-config-display causes monitor error "out of range". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.17-1.2548.fc6, xorg-x11-drv-nv-1.2.0-3.fc6 How reproducible: Every boot, until vga=0x317 is removed, then it works fine. Also happens with FC5 (2.6.17-1.2157_FC5) when "rhgb quiet vga=0x317" appears on the kernel boot line in grub; rhgb produces the "out of range" but clears up when gdm starts the greeter. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add vga=0x317 (other values not tested) to kernel line: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2548.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 noapic vga=0x317 2. boot that kernel 3. wait for X to start Actual results: Monitor (ViewSonic G220fb) displays "Out of Range" message on screen and no greeter screen is displayed. Xorg.0.log contains normal startup info. Expected results: Greeter should be displayed. Additional info: Hardware: Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe MB AMD Athlon X2 4000 2 GB DDR2-800 XFX GForce 7900 GT ViewSonic G220fb 21" Monitor
Please attach the Xorg.0.log from a failed startup and from a successful startup.
Created attachment 134142 [details] Xorg log with vga=0x317 at boot There is no difference in the Xorg logs between booting with and without vga=0x317. They are identical except for the time-stamp line. I forgot to mention that the first message emitted on the console at boot with vga=0x317 is "Console: switching to colour fram buffer device 128x48". Also, the actual error text that my monitor displays when X starts is "Frequency over range".
Problem still exists in fc6-test3, kernel 2.6.18-1.2784.fc6
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I have retested and verified that this bug still exists. I used FC6 with kernel 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 and the nv driver in xorg.conf. When the monitor displays the "Out of Range" message (when rhgb starts up), pressing Ctl-Alt-F1 correctly reverts the screen back to a console display, but the next time X11 is started during the rhgb process, the "Out of Range" message reappears. After the boot process completes and X11 is restarted for the GDM greeter, all is well. Note that this problem does NOT occur when using the closed-source nvidia driver.
Thank you.
clearing needinfo bit.
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Retested with Werewolf (Fedora 8) and kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8. Appears to be fixed - no longer getting "out of range" from monitor and all boot-up messages are correctly displayed, including the two penguins (I have a dual-core AMD cpu).