Yet Another Install Report

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Pete Ryland wrote:

> > > 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:

It shouldn't have asked for anything on upgrade. All the settings are left
untouched.

> > > 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.

I uploaded ubuntu9 today, can you check if the values are still correct
after an upgrade?

Fabio

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