X11 startup bug on some Dell monitors

Bug #14216 reported by Barry Walker
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Daniel Stone

Bug Description

On my updated daily Hoary box I've been getting a 'odd' X startup bug.

My PC is a Dell Dimension 2400, with the E127FP 17inch monitor.

On booting in to X my monitor displays the error, 'unable to display video mode'.

I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 with the idea of editing xorg.conf. I then by a serendipity
that when I hit Ctrl+Alt+F7 I find the Gnome login running at 1280X1080 at 75htz

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Barry Walker (baza41) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1747)
my xorg.0.log file

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Barry Walker (baza41) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1748)
xorg.conf file

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

*** Bug 13228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

Can you please run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and let me know if this
still happens afterwards?

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Barry Walker (baza41) wrote :

(
(In reply to comment #4)
> Can you please run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and let me know if this
> still happens afterwards?

I ran that but the best I got was 640X480.

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Barry Walker (baza41) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> (
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Can you please run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and let me know if this
> > still happens afterwards?
>
> I ran that but the best I got was 640X480.

Hoary did boot in to X11 but the screen resolution was stuck at 640X480

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Ryan Winner (geoffrian) wrote :

After a Crtl+Alt+Backspace to get out of KDM its says that the monitor tried to
get to 100,000MHz out of my max 110MHZ

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 16121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 16691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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*** Bug 16968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 17043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 17161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

xorg (6.8.2-11) breezy; urgency=low
 .
   * Death by a thousand cuts: the road to X11R7 begins here.
   * Remove all fonts and documentation packages, as these are now provided by
     external source packages. Remove MANIFEST.all. Never build fonts/specs
     from debian/rules.
   * Remove the x-dev package and all headers from the Xproto CVS module; this
     is now provided by x11proto-core-dev. Build-Depend on x11proto-core-dev.
     + 000_modularisation_proto_X11.diff: new.
   * Add differences in xc/lib/X11/Key{Bind,symStr}.c to
     000_stolen_from_HEAD.diff; they are needed to reflect the cleanup done on
     keysymstr.h in HEAD.
   * Remove all traces of Xtrans from the monolithic tree and build-depend on
     xtrans-dev.
     + 000_modularisation_lib_xtrans.diff: new.
   * Merge in giant patch from HEAD to fix all includes (e.g. "X.h" ->
     <X11/X.h>).
   * Remove the xterm package, to be provided by an external source package.
   * Tweak xserver-xorg.postinst.in so we don't unconditionally write sync
     ranges when upgrading (closes: Ubuntu#8706).
   * Set the default depth to 16 when using an nVidia chipset on a laptop.
   * Don't bomb in xorg-common postinst if /usr/{bin,include,lib}/X11 aren't
     symlinks.
   * Force removal of xfree86-common init.d script if it hasn't been changed
     (closes: Ubuntu#8833).
   * Update i810 driver from HEAD to fix DDC mode validation (closes:
     Ubuntu#7878).
   * Add patch to MGA driver to prevent corruption on Mystique (closes:
     Ubuntu#10065).
   * Add patch from HEAD to fix Savage CLUT being left in 6-bit mode even in
     24-bit modes; remove blacklisting that forced Savages to 16-bit per
     default (really closes: Ubuntu#6127).
   * Only include linux/config.h in drm.h if __KERNEL__, fixing FTBFS with
     linux-libc-headers; thanks, Dave Airlie.
   * Only class tr_f and not tr (aka Turkish Q) as a non-Latin layout; change
     trfu and trqu mappings to trf and trq (closes: Ubuntu#9209).
   * gcc4 transition: change xlibmesa-glu to libglu1-xorg, ditto -dbg, and
     xlibmesa-glu-dev to libglu-dev-xorg.
   * Fix radeon_probe.h build with gcc4 (patch #024d).
   * Bump libxrender-dev Build-Dep to /usr-transitioned version; add explicit
     render-dev Build-Dep, at /usr-transitioned version; same for
     libxcursor-dev and libxft-dev.
   * Add patch 991_ubuntu_gcc_flags.diff as a temporary workaround to a borked
     gcc-3.4 check.

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

*** Bug 17422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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