radeon 9000 (rv250) dvi 1920x1200 troubles
Alex Deucher
alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue May 13 09:33:02 PDT 2008
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Andre Puschmann
<andre.puschmann at stud.tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Andre Puschmann
> > <andre.puschmann at stud.tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:
> >> Alex Deucher wrote:
> >> > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1200"x60.0 154.00 1920 1968 2000 2080
> >> > 1200 1203 1209 1235 -hsync +vsync (74.0 kHz)
> >> >
> >> > the problem is you are using xserver 1.3 which had a bug when parsing
> >> > sync polarity from edid. the sync polarities are reversed and many
> >> > LCDs don't like that. try the following modeline:
> >> > Modeline "1920x1200R" 154.00 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209
> >> > 1235 +hsync -vsync
> >> >
> >> > xrandr --newmode "1920x1200R" 154.00 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203
> >> > 1209 1235 +hsync -vsync
> >> > xrandr --addmode DVI-0 "1920x1200R"
> >> > xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode "1920x1200R"
> >> >
> >> > Check to see if your distro provides a patch to fix that or upgrade to
> >> > a newer xserver.
> >> >
> >> > Alex
> >>
> >> Thanks for your prompt reply.
> >> Unfortunately this doesn't work either. I already tried this settings as
> >> this was one of the modelines I found with google.
> >>
> >> I also tried the newest Ubuntu Live-CD with the same results (xserver
> >> 1.4). But I will check again, if this version auto-detects the edid
> >> values correctly.
> >>
> >> And even worse, my monitor doesn't provide any error output. I just
> >> stays black.
> >>
> >> Maybe this problem is really because my video card can't provide the
> >> right signal?
> >> Is there anybody out there who runs a radeon 9000 with a resolution of
> >> 1920x1200px?
> >
> > Can you try the VGA port rather than the DVI port?
>
> Sure,
>
> the VGA port works with the above settings.
> But in my opinion the signal isn't very good, it looks a bit blurry.
>
> Maybe that helps to isolate the problem.
Perhaps the monitor doesn't like the bios provided TMDS PLL, does this
option help (assuming your driver is new enough):
Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" "TRUE"
Alex
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