installer screen doesn't work: out of scan range

[Mikel Ward]

When I booted from the Intrepid RC disc, I got the splash screen, but when I assume it tried to start the X server, my monitor just said "Out of scan range".

I have an ATi Radeon 3850 PCI Express connected via the primary DVI port and a DVI-VGA DSUB adapter to my 17" Sony CPD-220 CRT monitor.

Not sure if the bug is in X, the ATi X driver, or Ubiquity.

[Mikel Ward (mikelward)]

The default (almost empty) xorg.conf caused this.

Running XORG_SYNC_RANGES=yes dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg produced the same xorg.conf.

[Mikel Ward (mikelward)]

After changing the Monitor section to include explicit sync and refresh values, the logs look a little different but the end result was still the same

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Configured Monitor"
        HorizSync 30-95
        VertRefresh 60-85
EndSection

[Mikel Ward (mikelward)]

It works fine with the vesa driver, so I'm assuming the bug is related to the "radeon" driver.

For some reason, there's no xserver-xorg-video-radeon package in Launchpad, so i'm assigning to the general xserver-xorg package.

[Mikel Ward (mikelward)]

Currently working using the vesa driver. It defaulted to 1600x1200, which isn't an ideal resolution, but my monitor does support that at 60 Hz (and only 60 Hz).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

Hi mikelward,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.