Complaint received via web support ticket# 227394. --- 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
Created attachment 90199 [details] Customer's XF86Config file
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. --- 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.
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.