Adam Luter wrote:
>
> Russell,
>
> Thanks for your help. But we don't seem to be making any progress.
> I think I figured out where you were getting the mode lines you gave
> me -- they are from the Monitor itself. But do they work? Nope. The
> 1024x768 is reasonable, but still "shaky" (the overall skew per line
> is small, but it moves). I also noticed that DDC suddenly started
> working too. I guess I had made my monitor upset sending weird
> modelines, and so DDC turned itself for a while that night I was
> testing.
>
> Additionally DDC returns a different model number each time! I can
> only guess it's meaning to return "1710" since that's the only one
> that makes sense (even if it's not near "7454", "7854", "5478" (even
> bit-wise... unless we are talking about bit-skew, not bit
> replacement). I checked and the other DDC info doesn't seem to
> change each time X reads it -- but that model number sure does!
>
> After the modes it gave didn't work, I thought I would try doing
> this:
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "CTX:1710"
> VendorName "CTX"
> ModelName "CTX:1710"
> EndSection
>
> And basically let X figure out everything. (I also tried it with just
> your new ranges (24-95, 50-160, I think that was what it was you
> sent)). All of that still produced less than desirable results --
> especially still for 1280 modes (and without telling X anything, it
> wouldn't do 1600x1200).
>
> The interesting thing is where the monitor gives out it's own ranges:
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 35.20 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 37.50 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 37.90 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 46.90 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 48.10 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 56.50 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 60.00 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using hsync value of 64.00 kHz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using vrefresh value of 56.00 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using vrefresh value of 60.00 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using vrefresh value of 70.00 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using vrefresh value of 72.00 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): CTX:1710: Using vrefresh value of 75.00 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 400.00 MHz
>
> Which makes it look, to me, like a fixed frequency monitor. But I
> know it can't be. Those look more like the frequencies that are
> listed in the manual for the particular set of modes it touts support.
>
> A little earlier I got:
> (II) RADEON(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
> (II) RADEON(0): 720x400@70Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480@60Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480@67Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480@72Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 640x480@75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600@56Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600@60Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600@72Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 800x600@75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 832x624@75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@87Hz (interlaced)
> (II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@60Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@70Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1280x1024@75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): 1152x870@75Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
> (II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
> (II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 120 vid: 31793
> (II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 120 vid: 31813
> (II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 100 vid: 26721
> (II) RADEON(0): #3: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 100 vid: 26737
> (II) RADEON(0): #4: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 85 vid: 39297
> (II) RADEON(0): #5: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 72 vid: 19625
>
> (And directly after, the modelines I figure you used to make the
> monitor section you had me try).
>
> So my question is, where are these VESA modelines my monitor says it
> supports. Would I have better luck with them? Why aren't these
> automatically considered by X?
>
> (Instead it seems to go through the list trying out ones
> sequentially, in an attempt to maximize the frequencies (which I think
> is the exact thing, high frequencies, that causes problems). Here is
> what X does on auto pilot:
>
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of
> range)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (vrefresh out of
> range)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of
> range)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x200" (vrefresh out of
> range)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of
> range)
> ...snip....
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode "1600x1200" (no mode of this name)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode "1152x864" (no mode of this name)
> (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode "640x350" (no mode of this name)
> (--) RADEON(0): Virtual size is 1280x960 (pitch 1280)
> (**) RADEON(0): Default mode "1280x960": 108.0 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x960" 108.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961
> 964 10
> 00 +hsync +vsync
> (**) RADEON(0): Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.1 kHz, 75.1 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768" 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769
> 772 80
> 0 +hsync +vsync
> (**) RADEON(0): Default mode "800x600": 49.5 MHz, 46.9 kHz, 75.0 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600" 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604
> 625 +h
> sync +vsync
> (**) RADEON(0): Default mode "640x480": 31.5 MHz, 37.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480" 31.50 640 656 720 840 480 481 484
> 500 -hs
> ync -vsync
> (++) RADEON(0): DPI set to (100, 100)
>
> )
>
> I guess it's really picking at straws, because the modes my monitor
> explicity gave mode lines for, didn't even work. So perhaps I just
> can't go high frequency anymore -- it's broke? (I have been in text
> console mode for a few weeks before I got the new video card).
>
> But I still would like to try those VESA modes, that gets me to 1280
> (maybe). Can I just figure them based on the numbers that are given,
> or is there a table of them somewhere?
>
> Or what? I'm definately not the professional here :) . So what do
> you all think?
The listed modes have no info on the sync pulse parameters. Other than
trying xvidtune or your own modelines, the last resort is to see if your
monitor is still working properly by connecting it to a windows system
with a windows driver.
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.1 kHz, 75.1 Hz
^ pix.freq ^ horz.freq ^ vert.freq
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768" 78.80 1024 1040 1136
1312
^ pix.freq ^ end of H.visible ^ H.pulse start ^ H.pulse
end ^ end of H.invisible
768 769 772 80
^ end of V.visible ^ V.pulse start ^ V.pulse end ^ end of V.invisible (should
be 808???????)
Maybe you have some typos:
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x960" 108.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961
> 964 10 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 00 +hsync +vsync
> (**) RADEON(0): Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.1 kHz, 75.1 Hz
> (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768" 78.80 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769
> 772 80 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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