Yet Another Install Report

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:52:58 +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Pete Ryland wrote:
> 
> > > > I was (pleasantly) suprised to see it default to US keyboard layout
> > > > despite me living in the UK, but that's what I use (even with a UK
> > > > keyboard).
> > >
> > > Interesting; I don't think it's quite _that_ smart.  On the console or
> > > in X?
> >
> > This was for X.  On the console it (quite rightly) defaulted to UK
> > layout, not that I really use the console that much anyway.
> 
> It depends which LANG setting you selected for the installation. en_US
> would give you a us keyboard layout with X.

I guess I'm kind of strange, so I certainly don't expect to be catered for
here.  Being an Australian in the UK, I'm used to the US keyboard layout
(even on a UK keyboard), but much prefer (UK) English for language.

> > Another thing, actually.  When I rebooted after the big update, X was
> > reconfigured in a strange way - my modes and all were all still intact,
> > but the monitor definition was now wrong.  When I first did
> > dpkg-reconfigure after installing off the CD, it detected my monitor
> > perfectly and sorted it with ease,
> 
> Can you be more specific?

Yes, sorry.

When I installed off the CD, I selected Medium for monitor settings.  It
detected the monitor number (viz iiyama HM204DT) and then I think asked for
the highest resolution that it could display.  The sticker on the top of the
monitor says 2048x1536 so that's what I put in.  Easy.

After the update and a reboot X was now at 1024x768, so I ran the
dpkg-reconfigure again and it now only asks about hsync and vsync which I'm
sure are specified in the manual but I wouldn't know reasonable values to
put in myself.  I ended up finding them at the end of the "Monitor1 EDID
data" section of the X log:

(II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: HM204D DT
(II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50  V max: 200 Hz, H min: 30  H max: 140 kHz, PixClock max 390 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) RADEON(0): clock: 388.0 MHz   Image Size:  395 x 295 mm
(II) RADEON(0): h_active: 2048  h_sync: 2216  h_sync_end 2440 h_blank_end 2832 h_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1536  v_sync: 1537  v_sync_end 1540 v_blanking: 1612 v_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): End of Monitor1 EDID data --------------------
(II) RADEON(0):
(II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 1
(==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) RADEON(0): Validating modes on Primary head ---------
(WW) RADEON(0): config file hsync range 28-70kHz not within DDC hsync range 30-140kHz
(WW) RADEON(0): config file vrefresh range 43-75Hz not within DDC vrefresh range 50-200Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Generic Monitor: Using hsync range of 28.00-70.00 kHz
(II) RADEON(0): Generic Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 43.00-75.00 Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Clock range:  20.00 to 400.00 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of range)
...

So I put in those values.  A bit more difficult this time, and a needless
hassle since it was already a good configuration *before* the update.

> > but now it doesn't ask the Simple/Medium/Advanced question even,
> 
> Because there was no real difference between them.

There certainly was for me a big difference.

> > so I had to look in the /var/log/XFree86.log file to glean the monitor
> > [vh]sync ranges before being able to use a decent res again.
> 
> On which X version? ubuntu8 should have this problem fixed.

This was when upgrading to version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu8.

Pete