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xresprobe package

  1. Bug #106395 (widescreen)
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 106395

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Olivier Mengué (dolmen) wrote :

I disagree with the "marked as duplicate of bug #136699".

My bug report is not about the VESA driver but instead the xresprobe tool.
xresprobe from the live CD seems to use the VESA driver to retrieve VESA data information, but the Xorg.conf file generated for the final desktop will be for the ATI driver.
I can understand that there is some technical limitation in VESA that limit what the VESA driver can do.
However, as the ATI driver knows ho to set a particular video mode including wide screen ones, I expect xresprobe to be able to correctly generate an Xorg.conf adapted to my hardware.

So please, have a closer look to the log I reported.

The bug is not in the VESA driver but in xresprobe which does not detect the useful information from the Xorg.log.

I expect that xresprobe detetect the resolution of my screen from the Modelines reported in the log.