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Manual tweaking needed to support a resolution of 1920x1200

Bug #24862 reported by Fredrik Schön on 2005-10-31

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xorg (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I first installed hoary, it correctly identified the native resolution of
my Hewlett-Packard f2304 monitor as 1920x1200, at least when I used the
proprietary nvidia driver. The adapter I use is a NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT.

When I upgraded (using Synaptic) to Breezy that resolution was unavailable until
I manually created and added the modeline:

Modeline "1920x1200" 154.00 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 # 154
MHz, 74.04 kHz, 60.0 Hz

to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The modeline is handcrafted from the corresponding
timings in the Windows driver.

I would suggest this is a usability bug.

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote on 2005-11-02:

please attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Fredrik Schön (fredrikschon) wrote on 2005-11-03:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log Edit (32.8 KiB, text/plain)

Created an attachment (id=4860)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

as requested (additional config and logs are attached to bug 24861)

Daniel Stone (daniels) on 2006-03-10

Changed in xorg:
assignee:	daniels → nobody

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote on 2006-05-05:

Hi Frederik,

i am in the process of reviewing very old bugs. do you happen to know if this has been fixed in most recent versions of Ubuntu?

Thanks
Fabio

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Fredrik Schön (fredrikschon) wrote on 2006-05-12: Re: [Bug 24862] Re: Manual tweaking needed to support a resolution of 1920x1200

Fabio,

No. I tried the nv driver just a few days ago, as the binary nvidia driver
broke on the last kernel upgrade (my bad, not yours). The nv driver is still
limited to 1280x1024 on my system.

I suspect this bug to be somewhat related to X.org Bug 5386 - EDID mode
injection <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5386>, but I have
not tried any of the patch suggestions related to that bug.

Thanks for following up on my report, and sorry for my slow response.

Fredrik.

2006/5/5, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <email address hidden>:
>
> Hi Frederik,
>
> i am in the process of reviewing very old bugs. do you happen to know if
> this has been fixed in most recent versions of Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks
> Fabio
>
> --
> Manual tweaking needed to support a resolution of 1920x1200
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/24862
>

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Fredrik Schön (fredrikschon) wrote on 2006-05-12:

Sorry, I commented on the wrong bug report. Will test again and report back.

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Fredrik Schön (fredrikschon) wrote on 2006-05-12:

I removed the hand-made Modeline, and the nvidia driver still works in
1920x1200 mode as expected. I have not tested the entire upgrade path again,
but as a standard xorg.conf now works as expected I don't think I need to.

Comment #4 is related to bug #24861, which is still open. Sorry for the
confusion.

I consider this bug fixed for me.

Thanks.
Fredrik.

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote on 2007-02-01:

Thanks for the follow up!