[Openchrome-users] Problem getting Xorg to run on Fedora Core 12 - x-no blanking.txt

[John Robinson]

On 15/03/2010 11:19, George R. Kasica wrote:
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>> Oh dear. You don't have a 1920x1080 mode so the driver's trying 
>> 1600x1200 which your monitor may not support. Try adding the following 
>> below the VertRefresh line:
>>
>>    # 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz
>>    Modeline "1920x1080"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083
>> 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
>>
>> Or if your monitor supports reduced blanking:
>>    # 1920x1080 59.93 Hz (CVT 2.07M9-R) hsync: 66.59 kHz; pclk: 138.50 MHz
>>    Modeline "1920x1080"  138.50  1920 1968 2000 2080  1080 1083 1088
>> 1111 +hsync -vsync
>>
>> Of course, this is still a workaround until we find out why the driver's 
>> not correctly detecting your monitor and getting a suitable modeline 
>> directly from it.
> Changes made logs attached since list won't allow long attaches. First
> is the first change...black screen...second one very bad idea...killed
> the keyboard input took a reboot to fix it....for what its worth
> Windows run at 1600 x 1200 here 32 bit color (2 different PCs) should
> we be aiming for that - that would suffice here.

Neither modeline should have caused a crash like this. I think we have 
to go back to earlier in the thread. Have you been into the BIOS and 
actually set 64M of video RAM?

Cheers,

John.