http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534 User jbottomley@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534#c2 James Bottomley changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|DUPLICATE | --- Comment #2 from James Bottomley 2009-06-01 09:19:53 MDT --- I agree this bug would be fixed by the enhancement, but it's a bug now. The 50Hz modeline causes the panel to be wavy and out of focus. That's wrong now and needs fixing now otherwise customers with the HP mini K series will hate the experience openSUSE gives them. If it needs to be added to some database so SaX 2 produces the proper panel mode line until such time as the enhancement request is in, then that would be a reasonable way to fix this -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|SAX2 misconfigures HP mini |sax2: generates broken |1366x768 display |modeline for 1366x768 (50 | |Hz!) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534 User jbottomley@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534#c5 James Bottomley changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED Info Provider|jbottomley@novell.com | --- Comment #5 from James Bottomley 2009-06-02 07:58:52 MDT --- This was from a fresh install of OpenSUSE 11.1 which brought up the display in 800x600. On reboot, I used yast to fire up SaX to reconfigure this to 1366x768 which is the correct panel resolution. That's when it gave me the 50Hz modeline. Looking through the generated conf file (attached) I see this: HorizSync 29-40 Which is too low to support 1366 @ 60Hz (Needs to be about 48 at the top end), so it could be this which is the root cause. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534 User jbottomley@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534#c7 James Bottomley changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED Info Provider|jbottomley@novell.com | --- Comment #7 from James Bottomley 2009-06-02 10:26:50 MDT --- Sorry, must have been half way through fixing the problem when I saved the xorg.conf file ... I don't seem to have a pristine original. I configured it as I said above ... I didn't set a monitor: it's an LCD panel and should be auto detected, I just went straight to the resolution and fixed that. When I go to Configure Display Settings, it said Monitor: Laptop 10" Which sounded reasonable, so I left it. I just altered the resolution on the resolution button, which seems like the natural thing to do. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534 User jbottomley@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534#c9 James Bottomley changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |REOPENED Info Provider|jbottomley@novell.com | --- Comment #9 from James Bottomley 2009-06-03 10:10:20 MDT --- OK, I can't reinstall the system, but I can blow away the configuration and try again. The default SaX2 installation gives the attached configuration at 800x600 ... this is the one that has the monitor horizontal refresh too low. Since this is given at install time, there's no way to modify it. Next, when you log in, reconfigure display is handled by the 'Configure Display settings' applet. It's this that tells me I have a 10" monitor and allows me to set the resolution, and when I set it to 1366x768 it's at too low a refresh rate. So the problem is that we get into this situation on the default path a user would use to configure the system. If I ignore the display panel applet and fire up SaX2 again, I can then see it has an unknown monitor and set it to a 1366x768@60Hz panel ... but a causal user wouldn't know to do this, which is why this is a usability bug. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508534#c11 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #11 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-06-03 10:52:18 MDT --- (In reply to comment #9)

OK, I can't reinstall the system, but I can blow away the configuration and try again. The default SaX2 installation gives the attached configuration at 800x600 ... this is the one that has the monitor horizontal refresh too low. Since this is given at install time, there's no way to modify it.

You can't change it during installation if you chose autoconfiguration for installation (which is our default). Afterwards you can change it via YaST/SaX2.

Next, when you log in, reconfigure display is handled by the 'Configure Display settings' applet. It's this that tells me I have a 10" monitor and allows me to set the resolution, and when I set it to 1366x768 it's at too low a refresh rate.

This is a different tool. Either krandrtray (KDE4) or gnome-display-properties (Gnome). I think these tools can't change the hsync/vsync limits of the monitor, so it's possible that they offer such modelines.

So the problem is that we get into this situation on the default path a user would use to configure the system.

If I ignore the display panel applet and fire up SaX2 again, I can then see it has an unknown monitor and set it to a 1366x768@60Hz panel ... but a causal user wouldn't know to do this, which is why this is a usability bug.

Again. We need to get rid of xorg.conf/sax2, but it's not possible to fix this still for 11.1. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 441404 *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441404 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.