800x600 max feisty livecd (and previous)

[Bill Turner]

Binary package hint: xorg

I have an emachines w-3052 with the following general specs. I also have an emachines 17" monitor.

PCLinuxOS v.93a, AMD Sempron 3000+ 2GHz,512M,Nvidia GeForce4 64M,120GB/XP
PCLinuxOS.Free yourself!!
Linux_User_437009

With PCLinuxOS (and others) I routinely run at 1024x768 up to and including 1680x1000 with this same hardware. Ubuntu will only run at 800x600 max no matter what I tell it to use on the boot menu.

This morning for instance I told it on the feisty livecd to use 1280x1024 (using the 'vga' option) and also set 'noapic' and 'acpi=on' which for this machine is needed. The default boot parameters were used otherwise.

While the system was booting the resolution was at the proper 1280x1024, but when the desktop actually loaded up, it was right back to the same old 800x600 max that has been the only desktop resoltion that shows up for me. I have an option for 800x600 and 640x480 and that's it. Installing to the hard drive makes no difference.

To be honest I don't know why I continue to try. It's not like I have some sort of exotic hardware or something. Pretty 'middle of the road' sort of a system. Here's a copy of my xorg.conf from pclinuxos that is a working config....

*** PCLinuxOS xorg.conf ***
# File generated by XFdrake (rev 41554)

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
    # font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
    FontPath "unix/:-1"

    # minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs
    FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
    #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Plug'n Play"
    ModelName "eView 17f3"
    HorizSync 30-70
    VertRefresh 50-160

    # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
    # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

    # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "nVidia Corp."
    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Modes "1400x1050"
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 15
        Modes "1400x1050"
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "1400x1050"
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1400x1050"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    Screen "screen1"
EndSection

*** End PCLinuxOS xorg.conf ***

Hope this helps you figure out why I am at max of 800x600.

Bill Turner

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' would also be helpful. Thanks in advance.

[Bill Turner (bturner45)]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:46 +0000, Brian Murray wrote:

Hello Brian,

> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' would also be helpful. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>

I have attached the file you requested. Hope this helps.

Bill

--
Pclinuxos v.93a on AMD Sempron 3000+, 512M,Nvidia GeForce4,120GB/XP
PCLinuxOS.Free yourself!!
Linux_User_437009

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Please attach these files from the livecd-session using the web-interface (mail-attachments are lost):

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/var/log/casper.log
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

[Bill Turner (bturner45)]

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
 # path to defoma fonts
 FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "i2c"
 Load "bitmap"
 Load "ddc"
 Load "dri"
 Load "extmod"
 Load "freetype"
 Load "glx"
 Load "int10"
 Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "CoreKeyboard"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "us"
 Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
 Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
 Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
 Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Driver "wacom"
 Identifier "stylus"
 Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
       # /dev/input/event
       # for USB
 Option "Type" "stylus"
 Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Driver "wacom"
 Identifier "eraser"
 Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
       # /dev/input/event
       # for USB
 Option "Type" "eraser"
 Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Driver "wacom"
 Identifier "cursor"
 Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to
       # /dev/input/event
       # for USB
 Option "Type" "cursor"
 Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU]"
 Driver "nv"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "eView 17f3"
 Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Device "nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU]"
 Monitor "eView 17f3"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 1
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 4
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 8
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 15
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSection "Display"
  Depth 16
  Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
 EndSubSection
 SubSectio...

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

The Ubuntu doesn't have the explicit monitor refresh ranges:
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160

Look at the refresh ranges the monitor said it could do:
31.50-37.90 kHz
50.00-70.00 Hz

Shoddy monitor edid information? What does
sudo xresprobe nvidia
say?

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Sorry that command was wrong. It should have been
sudo xresprobe nv

[Bill Turner (bturner45)]

sudo xresprobe nv
id: eView 17f3
res: 1024x768 800x600 720x400 640x480
freq: 30-70 50-160
disptype: crt
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Very strange. Setting back to unconfirmed and punting from xorg -> xserver-xorg-video-nv ...

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Bill:
In the short term it might be interesting to find out whether adding:
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
to the Section "Monitor" part of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf make any difference. You will then need to restart gdm (ctrl-alt-backspace might do it).

[ehnar (ehnar)]

Have had the same problem with the live CD in Hardy.