On 10/19/2007 11:54 PM, Jim Flanagan wrote:
My main issue is that during boot of a clean 10.3 install, I see the splash screens, and can press esc to see the boot txt scroll by, OK, this is using the video card's frame buffer. but when the system reached runlevel 5 it won't run kdm. This is because of a non functional xorg.conf. I can vnc into it at that point from another box, but the local kdm will not start. So the local X isn't working. Sax2 fails to run, and gives an error meesage saying to see /var/log/SaX.log (see attached).
And the error message was? Wasn't there more of an error than to just see sax2.log?
In the boot txt I also see a line that says gdm is unknown, but I have not installed gdm, only kdm.
That is a separate bug, not an issue here.
=========== /var/log/SaX.log /************* SaX2 log : SaX2 version 8.1 - SVN Release: 1.49 2003/03/17 ************** SVN RELEASE : 1443 <snip> 19-Oct 10:11:26 <I> [ Sysp: XStuff detection data Card0 => DDC : PTS2517 Card0 => DDC[2] : PTS2517 Card0 => Name : PROVIEW LT782s Card0 => Vendor : PTS Card0 => Name[2] : PROVIEW LT782s
This is correct for your monitor?
Card0 => Vendor[2] : PTS Card0 => Primary : 02-00-0 Card0 => Chipset : <undefined> Card0 => Vsync : 75 Card0 => Hsync : 80 Card0 => Vsync[2] : 75 Card0 => Hsync[2] : 80
Will it support these upper limits for its frequencies?
Card0 => Vesa : 800 600 36 60 Card0 => Vesa : 800 600 43 72 Card0 => Vesa : 800 600 45 75 Card0 => Vesa : 1024 768 46 60 Card0 => Vesa : 1024 768 53 70 Card0 => Vesa : 1024 768 57 75 Card0 => Vesa : 1280 1024 76 75 Card0 => Vesa : 1280 1024 61 60 Card0 => Vesa : 1280 1024 80 75
These are all possible resolutions. You mentioned before you had to make changes for your frame buffer to work with your monitor. It did not work at 1280x1024. IIRC you changed it to 1024x768 and it worked. Notice above how much lower the horizontal frequencies are for those resolutions.
Card0 => Modeline : 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +/+
This was the chosen mode line. So it will try starting it up at 1280x1024. If it cannot handle 80 for horiz or 75 for vert, your monitor will not work.
Card0 => Display : LCD/TFT
Is this true? Is your monitor an LCD? Most do not like such a high vert. freq. Even though mine says it works at 75, it shifts the display. I need to tweak mine to 72 limit to force a lower freq mode line, which works perfectly. Most LCDs are great with 60.
Section "Monitor" Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool" DisplaySize 337 270 HorizSync 30-80 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "PROVIEW LT782S" Option "DPMS" VendorName "PTS" VertRefresh 43-75 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection
Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" EndSection
Looks like no identified modes. I have read here that sometimes this is OK, as it is determined differently. Mine has: Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1152x864" 99.64 1152 1224 1344 1536 864 865 868 901 Modeline "1152x864" 83.25 1152 1200 1232 1312 864 867 871 894 +HSync -VSync Modeline "1024x768" 78.43 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 801 Modeline "1024x768" 66.50 1024 1072 1104 1184 768 771 775 794 +HSync -VSync Modeline "800x600" 46.87 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 626 Modeline "800x600" 42.25 800 848 880 960 600 603 607 621 +HSync -VSync Modeline "1280x1024" 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 EndSection
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.41.7 (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: UNSUPPORTED-8.413.1 (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Sep 7 2007 22:35:20 (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found (EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error: no screens found ]
I believe this is saying it could not find a resolution it could use that would be accepted by your monitor. From what I am able to find, it is best at 1280x1024x60Hz. I think this is the problem. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org