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xorg-server package

  1. Bug #89853
  2. Comment #127

Comment 127 for bug 89853

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William Cattey (wdc-mit) wrote :

Wow! You're right. I should have gone back and reviewed the earlier log files.

In the learning I've done since jumping into this situation, I think I understand what your problem is:

In the situation when the EDID transfer is good, if the display offers a mode line that the BIOS does not support, you will lose.

In the Xorg.log file you attached on 3/9/2007, indeed there's a good EDID transfer. A detailed modeline is supplied for 1280x800, but then there are no 1280x800 configurations offered by the BIOS. (If I've understood how the log file works, and my assumption that the detailed mode specs are from the BIOS, whereas the 1280x800 spec is from the monitor.)

I have also been tracking my symptom in another bug. I apologize for inadvertently hijacking your bug.

-Bill