[Openchrome-users] Problem getting Xorg to run on Fedora Core 12

[George R. Kasica]

>On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:36:23 +0100, you wrote:

>On 03/13/2010 01:16 AM, George R. Kasica wrote:
>> OK, first off this was working on FC10 and no hardware has changed
>> here, only the FC10 to 12 upgrade...I've got the latest updates and
>> fixes as of today 3/12 via a nightly yum run, but this has been broken
>> since upgrade about a few days after release. I can run the server
>> without X in init level 3 but it would be really nice it have my X
>> sessions back....what am I doing wrong here, I'm totally stumped....
>> 
>> Hardware is as follows:
>> 
>> 2 CPU's Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 09
>> 4GB RAM
>> Linux agpgart interface v0.103
>> agpgart: Detected VIA P4M800 chipset
>> 
>> Display is a Dell ST2310 which windows-7 or 2003 runs well at
>> 1600x1200 @ 60Hx and has a max resolution of 1920x1080 @ 60Hz per the
>> menu on the screen...docs don't list any more info.
>> 
>> here is the log of the setup and attempt to configure and run X from a
>> root command prompt with
>> 
>> and the config below it.
>> 
>> Xorg -configure
>> 
>> then 
>> 
>> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> # more /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>> ===========================
>>  
>...snip...
>> (--) CHROME(0): Probed amount of VideoRAM = 1024 kB
>
>This looks wrong and very likely the root cause of your issue. Try to
>force it to the proper value set in the bios. the unit is kB.
>Option "VideoRAM" "65536"
Xavier I'm no means an X expert - I just run the thing...how would I
do the above?? Where and what syntax would I use in the config file?

>
>There is a bug already filled for this :
>http://www.openchrome.org/trac/ticket/177
>
>> (II) CHROME(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz
>> (II) CHROME(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00
>> Hz
>
>Also, either the monitor doesn't send an EDID or it's not read properly.
>You might need to force HorizSync and VertRefresh to some sane values
>(check your monitor manual).
The manual shows nothing for values...off Dells website I find the
below info, but again...I don't have any idea how I'd go about feeding
that info into a config or which or where I'd place it...I hate to
sound so stupid, but as a sysadmin we just don't work alot with X here
normally - character based, or it just runs.:

Preset Display Modes
ST2210/ST2310/ST2410

Display Mode
 Horizontal Frequency (kHz)
 Vertical Frequency (Hz)
 Pixel Clock (MHz)
 Sync Polarity (Horizontal/Vertical)
 
VGA, 720 x 400
 31.469
 70.087
 28.3
 -/+
 
VGA, 640 x 480
 31.469
 59.940
 25.2
 -/-
 
VGA, 640 x 480
 37.500
 75.000
 31.5
 -/-
 
VESA, 800 x 600
 37.879
 60.317
 40.0
 +/+
 
VESA, 800 x 600
 46.875
 75.000
 49.5
 +/+
 
VESA, 1024 x 768
 48.363
 60.004
 65.0
 -/-
 
VESA, 1024 x 768
 60.023
 75.029
 78.8
 +/+
 
VESA. 1152 x 864  
 67.500  
 75.000  
 108.0  
 +/+  

VESA, 1280 x 1024 
 64.000
 60.000
 108.0
 +/+
 
VESA, 1280 x 1024
 79.976
 75.025
 135.0
 +/+
 
VESA, 1920 x 1080  
 67.500  
 60.000  
 148.5  
 +/+  


>
>It would be interesting to compare the F12 Xorg log with the F10 xorg
>log. I'm wondering if this is a regression.
Sorry...that config is long gone :(

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