Bug 915576 - initial boot and user screen resolution dropped down to a lower one and needs manual adjustment to set back to high
Summary: initial boot and user screen resolution dropped down to a lower one and needs...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
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Reported: 2013-02-26 07:02 UTC by Kostya Berger
Modified: 2014-02-05 19:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-02-05 19:29:17 UTC
Type: Bug
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my Xorg.0.log file relevant to the session (20.96 KB, text/x-log)
2013-02-26 07:02 UTC, Kostya Berger
no flags Details

Description Kostya Berger 2013-02-26 07:02:01 UTC
Created attachment 702649 [details]
my Xorg.0.log file relevant to the session

Description of problem: All of a sudden on a next boot screen resolution at graphic boot and later on in user desktop session dropped down from normal 1680x1050 to 1024x780 as highest available.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.2-7.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.3-1.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-12.0.2-3.20120718gite5ac80d8f.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.21.2-1.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.2-2.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.3-3.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.3.1-1.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.5-6.fc18.noarch
abrt-addon-xorg-2.1.1-1.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.6.1-2.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.7.3-5.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.13.2-4.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-resutils-7.5-4.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-void-1.4.0-12.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.5.1-3.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.16.1-2.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.7-5.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-10.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.13.2-4.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-13.0.0-1.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.3.6-2.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.6-4.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.97.0-2.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.13.2-4.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.5-16.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.7-2.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.0-1.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-xfs-1.1.2-2.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-utils-7.5-7.fc18.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.0.0-0.9.20121015gitbd9e2c064.fc18.x86_64
(just don't know which one of them is to blame)


How reproducible: Don't know, I did nothing in particular and the thing happened on boot the next morning.


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results: Detected display resolution remains not higher than (generic) 1024x780, until set manually using xrandr.


Expected results: Normal display resolution to be detected on boot, as it used to be before: 1680x1050_60.0


Additional info:
$cvt 1680 1050 60 -- gives off the following line

# 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz
Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync

but then trying to create a new mode with the command:
$xrandr --newmode "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync

gives off error:
X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)

Then, changing name of the new mode works:
$xrandr --newmode "1680x1050_OK"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
$xrandr --addmode VGA-1 1680x1050_OK

...And on reboot I have to do it all over again.

Comment 1 Kostya Berger 2013-02-28 13:18:39 UTC
**Fresh observations**
I've tried a LiveCD and it is the same with the LiveCD -- it automatically detects only 1024x768, but would readily switch to 1680x105 when the above commands used.
It used to detect everything normally, both with HDD install and LiveCD.

So... it seems something's got wrong either with graphics card or monitor? 
Also, system time is jumping for no obvious reason.

Comment 2 Kostya Berger 2013-02-28 18:49:08 UTC
From the attached Xorg.0.log:
30.928] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Swap limit set to 2 [Max allowed 2]
[    30.959] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output DVI-I-1 has no monitor section
[    30.973] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output VGA-1 has no monitor section
[    30.999] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Output TV-1 has no monitor section
[    31.029] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output DVI-I-1
[    31.043] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output VGA-1
[    31.043] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing probed modes for output VGA-1
[    31.043] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
.................................

as compared to one from the machine with no such problem:
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID for output DVI-I-1
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Manufacturer: ACI  Model: 22a6  Serial#: 45230
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Year: 2011  Week: 44
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID Version: 1.3
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Digital Display Input
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 53  vert.: 30
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Gamma: 2.20
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): DPMS capabilities: Off
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4 
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): redX: 0.644 redY: 0.332   greenX: 0.286 greenY: 0.601
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): blueX: 0.152 blueY: 0.076   whiteX: 0.312 whiteY: 0.328
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Supported established timings:
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 720x400@70Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 640x480@60Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 640x480@67Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 640x480@72Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 640x480@75Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 800x600@56Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 800x600@60Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 800x600@72Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 800x600@75Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 832x624@75Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 1024x768@60Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 1024x768@70Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 1024x768@75Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): 1280x1024@75Hz
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Supported standard timings:
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): #0: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 75  vid: 20337
[    30.485] (II) NOUVEAU(0): #1: hsize: 1280  vsize 960  refresh: 60  vid: 16513
......................................

Obviously, in the first case EDID gives off no data, while in the second it detects everything. Both Fedora 18 installations x86_64 with the same updates installed.
Therefore, given all the above, the problem looks like being caused by hardware: perhaps, broken cable or something of the sort. In fact, right before the problem showed up I swapped the cable many times, so maybe it just got damaged at the bending spot.

Will check with a new cable.

Comment 3 Kostya Berger 2013-03-06 17:21:07 UTC
Checked with a cable known to be fine, didn't help.

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