Bug 712572 - Full resolution of external HDMI device is not selectable, Nvidia ION MCP79 based netbook
Summary: Full resolution of external HDMI device is not selectable, Nvidia ION MCP79 b...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-11 09:46 UTC by cam
Modified: 2018-04-11 11:25 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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dmesg (124.04 KB, text/plain)
2011-10-01 16:05 UTC, cam
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messages (5.22 MB, text/plain)
2011-10-01 16:05 UTC, cam
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Xorg.0.log (62.43 KB, text/plain)
2011-10-01 16:06 UTC, cam
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Xorg.9.log?? (29.61 KB, text/plain)
2011-10-01 16:07 UTC, cam
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Description cam 2011-06-11 09:46:43 UTC
Description of problem:
I connect a full HD TV to the HDMI port of the netbook and the resolution selected is lower than the value I expected.

The netbook (Nvidia ION MCP79 based HP Mini 311c-1101SA) has 1366x720 display and the TV is 1920x1080. xrandr shows:

[cxm@newt ~]$ xrandr 
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2646 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS-1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 256mm x 144mm
   1366x768       60.0*+
   1024x768       59.9  
   800x600        59.9  
   640x480        59.4  
   720x400        59.6  
   640x400        60.0  
   640x350        59.8  
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 connected 1280x720+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 708mm x 398mm
   1280x720       60.0* 
   640x480        60.0  


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc15.i686


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.connect TV
2.check xrandr
3.
  
Actual results:
screen resolution is 1366x768 (display functions at this resolution and is usable, although I get the impression it is slightly clipped - a few pixels top and bottom are missing and quite a few on the left and right, enough to only see the 'e' from the File menu in a terminal that is fullscreened)

Expected results:
Ability to select higher resolution up to TV maximum (netbook reviews suggest it should be possible)

Additional info:
A separate report relates to the missing sound on HDMI: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712569

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-06-17 16:39:13 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 2 cam 2011-10-01 16:05:01 UTC
Created attachment 525872 [details]
dmesg

Comment 3 cam 2011-10-01 16:05:38 UTC
Created attachment 525873 [details]
messages

Comment 4 cam 2011-10-01 16:06:28 UTC
Created attachment 525874 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 5 cam 2011-10-01 16:07:12 UTC
Created attachment 525875 [details]
Xorg.9.log??

Comment 6 cam 2011-10-01 16:13:38 UTC
Apologies for the delay. I had a chance to look at this again with F16,

xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-27.20110720gitb806e3f.fc16.i686

On booting, gdm appeared at 640x480 with both displays showing the same image (mirrored?). After login it changed to two different screens.

Using xrandr and the gnome-settings dialog, I was able to set both displays at most to 1366x768 which is the native size of the laptop panel. Then the TV claims to be showing 1280x720 but it is centering the 1366x768 image and showing an innermost 1280x720 pixels of it - so the edges of the image are lost. I wondered if this is a bug where some config is taken from a structure related to the laptop panel not the HDMI output?

Ideally I'd like to have a fix for acccurate fullscreen for displaying media, getting the full 1280p resolution I suppose may be difficult due to memory constraints (although I believe it was a selling point of the laptop that it could do this with Windows!

As a secondary issue the setting to 640x480 seems unjustifiable, it would be better to drive the internal panel at native resolution and choose the nearest setting or the native setting for the outboard display, within reason.

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