[Openchrome-users] garbled display

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 08/09/2011 09:45 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 01:15 AM, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>> On 08/09/2011 02:04 AM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>>> I have a box with a via chip (cx700). LVDS panel is at 800x480.
>>> Booting into Fedora results in a garbled display (Fedora 15 xrandr
>>> reports the resolution is set at 1024x768, I can't seem to be able to
>>> set it to anything else)
>>> The distortion is similar to this one:
>>> http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/495/20100423.jpg (though there is no
>>> cursor visible)
>>>
>>> lspci -v is here:
>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.unichrome.devel/922
>>>
>>> There is no xorg.conf (Fedora stopped using it by default)
>>>
>> I'd try to both use ForcePanel and PanelSize options.
>> You need to create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file with only a device
>> section :
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Card0"
>> Driver "openchrome"
>> Option "ForcePanel"
>> Option "PanelSize" "800x480"
>> EndSection
>>
>> I'm not sure such a partial xorg conf will work, but in case it's not
>> just follow the doc in the link below to create a conf file and add the
>> 2 Option lines.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf
>>
>> Also please provide your xorg log (and please compress it so it'll not
>> hit the mailing list size limit).
>
> Wow, that's the closest I've seen it to working! Not quite there yet,
> though -- see http://i.imgur.com/Z5kVg.jpg
>
> Xorg.0.log is attached (don't mind screen1 and screen2; screen0 is the
> only one attached)
>
It seems like you are running the driver that comes with base Fedora 15, 
but I'd need the exact rpm version to be sure.
Have you tried either using the driver from the updates-testing repo or 
an svn trunk build ?

Regards,
Xavier