Re: F14 New Installation: Unknown Monitor

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On 02/02/2011 08:30 PM, Burkhard Plache wrote:
> xorg.conf exists now. Contains

Actually, I was hoping to see the output from Xorg.0.log without an
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file.  It would show us what the *system* thinks it
was doing and whether or not it chose a sane driver for the video card.

> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier "Videocard0"
> 	Driver "vesa"
> EndSection

Ouch!  VESA is the last haven of the unknown video card!
If you are looking for 3D support for videos, vesa is *NOT* the driver
you want to be using!

Where is the output from the "lspci | grep VGA" command?

On my laptop, its:

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]

As you can see, it tell me exactly what my video card is.  If you add 1
or 2 -v options to the lspci command, you can see more (and more) detail
about it.

> Xorg.0.log is long. Rather than attaching the whole thing, let
> me try to select what might be relevant (my comments via #BU:)
> 
> [...]
> [  2469.030] Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
> rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS
> rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
> KEYTABLE=us rhgb nomodeset quiet
> [...]
> [  2469.034] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> [  2469.034] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> [  2469.034] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> [  2469.035] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
> [  2469.036] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
> [  2469.036] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
> [  2469.036] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
> [  2469.036] (==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
>         Using the first device section listed.
> [  2469.036] (**) |   |-->Device "Videocard0"
> [  2469.036] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
>         Using a default monitor configuration.
> [...]
> [  2469.037] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> [  2469.037] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of
> input devices.
>         If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable
> AutoAddDevices.
> [...]
> [  2469.034] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> [  2469.034] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> [  2469.034] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> [...]
> #BU: here many extensions & modules are loaded, amongst others...
> [  2469.057] (II) Loading extension DRI2
> [  2469.057] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
> [  2469.058] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
> [  2469.059] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> [  2469.059]    compiled for 1.8.99.904, module version = 2.3.0
> [  2469.059]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> [  2469.059]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 8.0
> [  2469.059] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> [  2469.059] (--) using VT number 7
> #BU: ... followed by many modes (each having some 40 attributes).
> [  2469.929] Mode: 102 (800x600)
> [...]
> #BU: and one of the modes has my desired resolution:
> [  2469.966] Mode: 107 (1280x1024)
> [...]
> #BU: but later sadly ...
> [  2470.149] (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x1024" (no
> mode of this name)
> 
> Does this help to clarify?

No, its using VESA because that's the driver specified in your xorg.conf
file.  We need to determine *what* your video card really is, and what X
will do with it on its own....

Please, send output of "lspci | grep VGA" and where is the Xorg.0.log
output that tells us what video card you are using?  (I think you
snipped it.)  Are you trying to hide it????

I'm looking for a line in your Xorg.0.log like the following from my laptop:

> [    56.781] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:71c5:1043:10b2 rev 0, Mem @ 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xfeff0000/65536, I/O @ 0x0000b000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072

Which should describe your video card in hairy detail....  It should be
just after the *'d comment box that Fedora added to tell you about the
new udev-based device detection.

> I can attach the whole thing if that's better.

I would prefer to see the output with *no* /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in
place.  I'd like to see what video card it thinks it is using, and what
driver it loaded on its own, and what it has to say about the card's
video modes, and the monitor's EDID capabilities, and what extensions it
thought to load....

Inquiring minds want to know!

> Burkhard

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