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2010-07-16 09:49, Robert Bridge skrev: |
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> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erik <esigra@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> (There are other issues with this video device; it shows only 25 × 80 |
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>> characters in the virtual terminals (should be 75 × 240). This is the |
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>> new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600 |
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>> aquired 5 years earlier, with radeon driver. That old device worked fine |
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>> without any configuration files. The physical screen size was detected |
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>> and the virtual kernel output switched to 75 × 240 characters as soon as |
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>> the device was detected.) |
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> Hi Erik, |
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> It would help if you actually told us which driver you are using, and |
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> what the actual hardware is. I'm guessing it's an nVidia card in the |
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> new laptop, and some form of ATI card in the old one. It sounds like |
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> the driver is over-riding the xorg.conf with (incorrect) readings it's |
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> getting from the EDID for the display. |
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My /etc/make.conf has VIDEO_CARDS="nv" but I thought it was obvious from |
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the "NV" in the log message. The actual hardware is reported by lspci as |
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"01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce |
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9600M GS] (rev a1)". I tried to use read-edid see what EDID shows, but |
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the call failed (see other message). How would I know if xorg tried to |
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read EDID and whether it worked? |
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