Comment 17 for bug 294899

I can't get the Jaunty CD to boot into X, even in 'safe' mode.

The Samsung Syncmaster display won't accept any of the modes the driver tries.

Peter

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Tormod Volden
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> This certainly looks wrong in your original log file:
> (II) SAVAGE(0): Configured Monitor: Using hsync value of 0.00 kHz
> (II) SAVAGE(0): Configured Monitor: Using vrefresh value of 0.00 Hz
>
> It would be nice if you could test Jaunty and provide an Xorg.0.log.
> Unfortunately there are reports that the current savage driver in Jaunty
> is broken, but you can try a patched version from my PPA
> https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive
>
> If you test a Jaunty live CD, I suggest you boot in "failsafe graphics"
> mode (vesa driver) and then installs the patched driver, then change
> xorg.conf to use savage and restart X (log out and in again). If you now
> get a black screen, it should be possible to switch to a console with
> ctrl-alt-F1, log in and copy the Xorg.0.log, switch to vesa again in
> xorg.conf and restart X again with "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart".
>
> --
> No signal with Samsung SyncMaster 750s and ProSavage8
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294899
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