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xorg package

Xorg behaves unacceptably on mac mini

Bug #12490 reported by Alex Williamson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Daniel Stone

Bug Description

On the Ubuntu live CD and on full installation, the X xserver runs at 640x480.
I'll attach configs and logs, but I believe the relevant lines are these:

(WW) RADEON(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!
(WW) RADEON(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!
(WW) RADEON(0): Unrecognized BIOS signature, BIOS data will not be used
...
(WW) RADEON(0): Video BIOS not detected, using default clock settings!

If I remove the UseFBDev option, things get worse, the monitor fails to sync at
all. I've run both Debian unstable (xfree86) and Gentoo (xorg) on this box and
had no problems with running at the maximum resolution on either.

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Alex Williamson (alex-l-williamson) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1246)
Xorg config file

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Alex Williamson (alex-l-williamson) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1247)
Xorg -verbose 9 log file

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Alex Williamson (alex-l-williamson) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1248)
lspci -vvv

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Alex Williamson (alex-l-williamson) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1256)
6.8.1-1ubuntu13 log file

No joy, 6.8.1-1ubuntu13 behaves the same as ubuntu11

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Alex Williamson (alex-l-williamson) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1257)
ddcprobe output

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Alex Williamson (alex-l-williamson) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1282)
Debian/unstable XFree86 log file

I added the main Debian archive to my sources.list and installed
xserver-xfree86. Here's the verbose output from startup. Apparently the BIOS
warning are normal, but XFree86 seems to have gotten what it needs from the DDC
info.

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

xorg (6.8.1-1ubuntu16) hoary; urgency=low

  * This upload re-introduces all the 6.8.1-1ubuntu13 changes reverted in
    6.8.1-1ubuntu14; the changelog entries for 14 and 15 are here for
    historical purposes only.
  * Also write sync ranges out if DDC fails completely -> no resolutions, no
    sync ranges from DDC; tidy up code so sync ranges get written unless
    either we're on a laptop with a non-blacklisted chipset, or we're on a
    CRT/desktop LCD, and DDC succeeds and provides us with a sync range, or
    the user has been asked about them (closes: Ubuntu#6184).
  * Since DDC with powerpc/ati seems to be so flaky, blacklist every ATI card
    on PowerPC in terms of writing out sync ranges (closes; Ubuntu#6117).
  * Clear out $XORGTEMPLATES on xserver-xorg.config.in if XORG_FORCE_PROBE is
    either null or "yes", as opposed to if it was non-zero. Reverse test in
    xserver-xorg.config.in so that auto_answer will only attempt to use an
    existing answer if it's actually there.
  * Add additional backwards compatibility in terms of accepting "yes" for
    XORG_FORCE_PROBE everywhere a null is accepted.
  * If we come up with UNKNOWN as a keyboard layout, bump the question
    priority right up to critical, regardless of whether or not we're
    reconfiguring.
  * Remove extraneous quotes in xvfb-run (closes: Ubuntu#5531).
  * Remove sis_dri.so from xlibmesa-dri-dbg.install.ia64.

 -- Daniel Stone <email address hidden> Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:22:30 +1100

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