gutsy: video problem

[Knapp]

I to am having video problems on upgrade. It goes to the 1680x1050 but then
the auto button of the monitor sets the screen up all wrong so that there is
a big black line on 2 sides. This worked find in Fiesty.
Douglas

On 10/22/07, John L Vifian <jongleur at liripipe.com> wrote:
>
> I installed gutsy last night with no big problems except that after the
> initial boot the logon screen came up as a totally black screen.
>
> No Problem I had burned a install disk.  Unfortunately it had exactly the
> same
> problem & even the safe graphics mode failed to work. :-(
>
> So I booted into the CL version and played around a bit with xorg.conf,
> finally running Xorg -configure to give me a xorg.conf file that worked.
>
> Well sort of worked.  It no longer was able to give me a 1280x1024
> resolution
> which I had working in Fiesty (not to mention the dreaded XP). Nonetheless
> Gutsy seems to be working just with really big print etc. :-(
>
> Monitor: Princeton VL173 (17" capable of 1280X1024 @ 60hz in XP and
> previously
> in Fiesty)
>
> xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         #DisplaySize      340   270     # mm
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "PGS"
>         ModelName    "VL173"
> ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
>         HorizSync    31.0 - 60.0
>         VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
>         Option      "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Note the print documentation for the monitor says that the HorizSync is 31
> -
> 80 and this is what I had it set as in Fiesty, but the monitor itself
> seems
> to only claim the max of 60.
>
> I have tried various modelines in this section with no success.
>
> The driver:  (commented lines removed)
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> any help greatly appreciated.
>
> John L Vifian
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