[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-05 Thread Martin Pitt
We can't set turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup to True again. We
already had that, and it causes external monitors to get powered off.
This means that you can't use a docked laptop with an external monitor
any more, since we don't have any cleverness to detect whether the lid
is closed at startup and the internal screen should be powered off (this
is because of too many buggy BIOSes, not because we couldn't implement
it).

So it seems that both settings cause problems. Can't we just entirely
disable this xrandr messing by default? On normal single-screen
settings, KMS and X should already care about the resolution, and any
mode change that we introduce will not only be prone to misconfigure
your screens, but also introduce major startup latencies and thus slow
down boot.

** Summary changed:

- Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor
+ automatic xrandr module misconfigures monitors

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Just confirming, for me the bug manifests differently: I have a
1280x1024 external monitor, and X starts in that mode (with a little
help in xorg.conf). However, g-s-d tries to be too clever and switches
it to 1024x768, presumably because xrandr thinks that this is the
highest common resolution with my internal monitor (1280x800). So I now
get two unnecessary modeswitches during boot (my desktop session of
course switches it back to 1280x1024).

So this is indeed a regression.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Erick Brunzell
No doubt there are many related bugs, some may be duplicates, others
not. I'm certainly not sure.

But we're a few days from iso-testing, and one week from final. Do we
actually plan to release with this bug?

Should we not at least have some coherent reference in the release
notes?

If we release as-is I expect we'll regard the big bru-ha-ha over
wallpaper as very minor in comparison.

Color me sad and confused.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Hernando Torque
Feel free to rename the bug title as it doesn't seem to fit anymore. :-)

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
bug bug #638680 seems similar as well

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
which is bug #314057 on launchpad

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
one part of the issue could also be 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572502
"gnome-display-properties should pick the preferred xrandr mode"

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
upstream comment from an IRC discussion about the issue

"I'll happily include a patch that makes the boot-time 
configuration conditional
 with some use_boot_time_configuration key or something 
reasonably-named
 use_boot_time_configuration or use_xorg_configuration (the 
reverse)?
 I'd like it to be obvious from the key name that it's an 
either/or thing
 tormod: I'm leaning toward a do-not-touch kind of name now, 
with False by default - if you need to make it True, it means that you have a 
special case due to your X setup anyway"

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #572502
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572502

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
the gsd-xrandr-manager.c code has

"if (!apply_stored_configuration_at_startup (manager, 
GDK_CURRENT_TIME)) /* we don't have a real timestamp at startup anyway */
if (!apply_default_configuration_from_file (manager, 
GDK_CURRENT_TIME))
apply_default_boot_configuration (manager, 
GDK_CURRENT_TIME);"

the idea would be do an extra gconf key to only do the third call if the
key is set

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
> I'm just trying to show that this effects a lot of different hardware
and I do see this as a true "show-stopper"!

How do you know that? How much hardware did you try? How do you know if
doesn't do better job on some configurations and breaks some others?

What solution do you suggest? Changing the key value just workaround the
issue on some setups to trade with other broken ones. The safe way would
probably to go back to what lucid was doing though

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: Sebastien Bacher (seb128) => (unassigned)

** Also affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Maverick)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: Confirmed

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Subscribing ubuntu-release instead of myself; Erick, I'm no longer the
Ubuntu release manager, so please use the role account instead for
issues such as this.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-04 Thread Erick Brunzell
I filed a new one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/654660

Not to be a pain in the rear but I didn't see an exact parallel to what
I've experienced, and I thought it couldn't hurt to gather info.

I'm just trying to show that this effects a lot of different hardware
and I do see this as a true "show-stopper"!

Are we going to release Maverick final this way?

If others are unable to even boot the Live image, as I was, how many
will decide that Ubuntu just doesn't work for them?

While repeating what I said there I was able to finally boot the Live CD
this way:

" pressing F6, then ESC, then typing "text" (w/o the quotes), and then
typing:

gconftool-2 --type bool -s
"/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/xrandr/turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup"
false

Then just typing "startx" (again w/o the quotes) I got a desktop with
the expected modes".

I just don't see how we can release like this :^(

IMHO Maverick is otherwise an exemplary release. I just want to know how
we're going to handle this for the final release.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-02 Thread Tormod Volden
Note also that before bug 646076 gets fixed, the user can not make any
system-wide screen settings.

The recent g-s-d change also made bug 641525, bug 645377 and bug 646474
appear, but I am not marking them as duplicates since I believe xorg is
generating wrong modes in these cases which should be fixed separately.
g-s-d is only at fault for overruling the X server and selecting the bad
modes.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-10-01 Thread Tormod Volden
We had a discussion on IRC #ubuntu-x right now, and the consensus was
that by default, g-s-d should not turn external screens on or off, but
leave it the way the X server has set it up. If the user later
configures things on/off these settings will be applied next time.

The issues in this bug reports reveal some bugs in g-s-d and xorg/drm,
but they should be fixed independently of this
turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup question.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-30 Thread Erick Brunzell
First of all, apologies in advance for subscribing Steve Langasek w/o
permission but I have concerns regarding this NOT being included in the
release notes for the RC. Is it ever allowable to edit the release
notes?

You'll notice that I also marked both #643118 and #649534 as duplicates
of this bug. I'm reasonably sure that's correct, but maybe this bug
should be renamed something like, "Improper monitor settings result from
..".

I dunno???

Remember we're talking first impressions here ;^)

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-30 Thread Tormod Volden
In bug 643118 the consequences are more serious, because g-s-d picks an
unsupported mode instead of the preferred one, and the display is messed
up. I understand the driver should not suggest broken modes, but what is
g-s-d trying to do anyway? Should it not just keep the preferred mode
that the X server set up?

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Erick Brunzell
Is there anyway I could determine what the default settings are once
I've hit the "wall" in the live CD?

I fiddled around in that "working" Maverick and rolled back all old
kernels:

Start-Date: 2010-09-28  15:55:18
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Remove: linux-headers-2.6.35-14:i386 (2.6.35-14.20), 
linux-headers-2.6.35-14-generic:i386 (2.6.35-14.20), 
linux-image-2.6.35-14-generic:i386 (2.6.35-14.20)
End-Date: 2010-09-28  15:56:21

Start-Date: 2010-09-28  16:19:17
Commandline: apt-get autoremove
Remove: linux-headers-2.6.35-21-generic:i386 (2.6.35-21.31), 
linux-headers-2.6.35-16-generic:i386 (2.6.35-16.22), 
openoffice.org-java-common:i386 (3.2.1-6ubuntu2), linux-headers-2.6.35-15:i386 
(2.6.35-15.21), linux-headers-2.6.35-20:i386 (2.6.35-20.29), 
linux-headers-2.6.35-21:i386 (2.6.35-21.31), linux-headers-2.6.35-16:i386 
(2.6.35-16.22), libx264-85:i386 (0.85.1448+git1a6d32-4), ufraw-batch:i386 
(0.16-3), libmythes-1.2-0:i386 (1.2.0-4), libpoppler6:i386 
(0.14.2.is.0.14.1-0ubuntu1), libappindicator0.1-cil:i386 (0.2.9-0ubuntu1), 
libtextcat-data-utf8:i386 (2.2-4), linux-headers-2.6.35-15-generic:i386 
(2.6.35-15.21), linux-headers-2.6.35-20-generic:i386 (2.6.35-20.29), 
libmodplug0c2:i386 (0.8.8-2)
End-Date: 2010-09-28  16:19:56

Start-Date: 2010-09-28  16:28:49
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Remove: linux-image-2.6.35-15-generic:i386 (2.6.35-15.21)
End-Date: 2010-09-28  16:29:33

Start-Date: 2010-09-28  16:30:23
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Remove: linux-image-2.6.35-16-generic:i386 (2.6.35-16.22)
End-Date: 2010-09-28  16:31:05

Start-Date: 2010-09-28  16:34:04
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Remove: linux-headers-2.6.35-19-generic:i386 (2.6.35-19.28), 
linux-headers-2.6.35-17:i386 (2.6.35-17.23), linux-headers-2.6.35-19:i386 
(2.6.35-19.28), linux-headers-2.6.35-17-generic:i386 (2.6.35-17.23), 
linux-image-2.6.35-19-generic:i386 (2.6.35-19.28), 
linux-image-2.6.35-17-generic:i386 (2.6.35-17.23)
End-Date: 2010-09-28  16:35:46

Start-Date: 2010-09-28  16:51:59
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Remove: linux-image-2.6.35-20-generic:i386 (2.6.35-20.29)
End-Date: 2010-09-28  16:52:42

Start-Date: 2010-09-28  16:58:34
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Remove: linux-image-2.6.35-21-generic:i386 (2.6.35-21.31)
End-Date: 2010-09-28  16:59:21

And it still works just fine, so something that "stuck" from that
original toolchain upload and the newer installs/upgrades has absolutely
changed.

I'm just stuck and can't really test the new changes to ubiquity until
we get past this.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread sdowney717
happens to me ion the latest .run file from Nvidia
always resets to 60 on the refresh

in var.log.xorg.o.log note last line
37888.571] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1600x1200_60"
[ 37945.013] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1600x1200_85+0+0"

which one is which one, I see a 60 and I see an 85??


[ 37887.802] 
X.Org X Server 1.9.0
Release Date: 2010-08-20
[ 37887.802] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 37887.802] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-27-server i686 Ubuntu
[ 37887.802] Current Operating System: Linux scott-desktop 2.6.35-22-generic 
#33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686
[ 37887.802] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic 
root=UUID=4923760a-6e34-4678-b0ab-d06b151a2998 ro quiet splash
[ 37887.802] Build Date: 16 September 2010  05:39:22PM
[ 37887.802] xorg-server 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu7 (For technical support please see 
http://www.ubuntu.com/support) 
[ 37887.802] Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
[ 37887.802]Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 37887.802] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 37887.803] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Sep 28 17:33:53 
2010
[ 37887.803] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 37887.803] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 37887.803] (==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
[ 37887.803] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
[ 37887.803] (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
[ 37887.803] (**) |   |-->Device "Device0"
[ 37887.803] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
[ 37887.803] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[ 37887.803] (**) Option "Xinerama" "0"
[ 37887.803] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 37887.803] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 37887.803] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 37887.803]Entry deleted from font path.
[ 37887.803] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
built-ins
[ 37887.803] (==) ModulePath set to 
"/usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 37887.803] (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' 
or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 37887.803] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 37887.803] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 37887.803] (II) Loader magic: 0x81f8e00
[ 37887.803] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 37887.803]X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 37887.803]X.Org Video Driver: 8.0
[ 37887.803]X.Org XInput driver : 11.0
[ 37887.803]X.Org Server Extension : 4.0
[ 37887.804] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:06e4:196e:05cc rev 161, Mem @ 
0xfd00/16777216, 0xd000/268435456, 0xfa00/33554432, I/O @ 
0xbc00/128, BIOS @ 0x/131072
[ 37887.804] (--) PCI: (0:5:1:0) :0016:9005:0092 rev 1, Mem @ 
0xf400/67108864
[ 37887.804] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
[ 37887.804] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[ 37887.805] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 37887.805]compiled for 1.9.0, module version = 1.0.0
[ 37887.805]Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 37887.805]ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension DPMS
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension XVideo
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension X-Resource
[ 37887.805] (II) LoadModule: "dbe"
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
[ 37887.805] (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 37887.805]compiled for 1.9.0, module version = 1.0.0
[ 37887.805]Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 37887.805]ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 37887.805] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 37887.805] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 37887.820] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 37887.820]compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 37887.820]Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 37887.820] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  260.19.04  Thu Sep  2 19:10:41 PDT 2010
[ 37887.820] (II) Loading extension GLX
[ 37887.820] (II) LoadModule: "record"
[ 37887.820] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
[ 37887.820] (II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 37887.820]compiled for 1.9.0, module version = 1.13.0
[ 37887.820]Module class: X.Org Server Extension

[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Erick Brunzell
Just thought I should add that I currently have no router so I can't ssh
the sick "box" but I should be able to access the sick OS using a chroot
from the same box if that's helpful.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Erick Brunzell
Sorry to be slow but after trying the RC iso-testing i386 Live CD and
seeing the "out-of-range" error I decided to jump into upgrade testing.
I had been going to upgrade a highly modified Lucid, but due to this bug
I decided to spend the extra time to install and update a fresh 10.04.1,
and then perform the upgrade test.

As expected upon reboot I get the same error. Before reboot I gathered
this info:

la...@lance-desktop:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 
297mm
   1680x1050  60.6*+   74.9  
   1600x1200  75.0 60.0  
   1400x1050  74.9 60.0  
   1280x1024  75.0 60.0  
   1280x960   60.0  
   1152x864   75.0  
   1024x768   75.1 70.1 60.0  
   832x62474.6  
   800x60072.2 75.0 60.3 56.2  
   640x48072.8 75.0 66.7 60.0  
   720x40070.1  
la...@lance-desktop:~$ sudo get-edid
[sudo] password for lance: 
sudo: get-edid: command not found

I'm loathe to modify that OS ATM because I might be able to provide some
info for the appropriate devs. Just to recap a bit:

My effected hardware is Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics
Controller (rev 02) with a Hanns-G 22" LCD.

I currently have a fully updated (thru yesterday) Maverick on sda1 that
began with the the toolchain upload that works, another that was
effected by this bug on sdb1 but it now works with the edit to gconf,
and I now have a third on sda16 that's a fresh upgrade from 10.04.1 that
fails.

I'll not make any modifications to the latter as it may be the best
suitable to gather info from. But if requesting info please realize that
you're working with a simple minded end user :^)

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Hernando Torque
Nothing new in the log. I too think that g-s-d isn't the problem but
rather triggering the behavior.

Thing is, without a xorg.conf I only can chose between low/safe
resolutions. With Nvidia's BLOB it's enough to add horizontal and
vertical refresh rates, with Nouveau I also need to provide a modeline.
Xrandr/X (or however 'gnome_rr_mode_get_freq' from gnome-desktop gets
the info) seems to only rely on the monitor's EDID.

** Attachment added: "gsd-debug-randr.log"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/640807/+attachment/1650112/+files/gsd-debug-randr.log

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
you can run "sudo touch /var/lib/gdm/gsd-debug-randr" and restart gdm
and you will get a debug log /var/lib/gdm/gsd-debug-randr.log with
details on what g-s-d is doing

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
without that option turned on some configurations have no active screens
(ie docked laptop with lid closed for example), the configuration g-s-d
applies should be valid, it seems rather an xorg or xrandr bug

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-28 Thread Hernando Torque
I forgot, you also need to disable this option for the user ('sudo -u
gdm' will only deal with the gdm login screen):

gconftool-2 --type bool -s
"/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/xrandr/turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup"
false

I guess the easiest way to find out if you are affected by this bug is,
to install the x11-xserver-utils package and run 'xrandr -q' - normally
this should list a proper mode - it doesn't in my case. You can also run
'sudo get-edid' from the read-edid package - if it fails, you'll likely
hit this bug.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-27 Thread Erick Brunzell
I have tried several times with todays and 9-24's Live CD's removing
"quiet splash" which then drops me in a TTY, and then very carefully
typing "sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --type bool -s
"/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/xrandr/turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup"
false" followed by "sudo restart gdm" and/or "startx".

I always end up with "Fatal server error: no screens found". So the Live
CD is just a no-go ATM for me.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-27 Thread Erick Brunzell
Oops, This:

"however I've tried the Live CD with many options including "nomodeset"
and "i915.modeset=1" which both result in the "out-of-range" error, and
also "i915.modeset=1" which drops me to a TTY, and if I try startx I
just get the error "Fatal server error: no screens found"."

Should say:

however I've tried the Live CD with many options including "nomodeset"
and "i915.modeset=1" which both result in the "out-of-range" error, and
also "i915.modeset=0" which drops me to a TTY, and if I try startx I
just get the error "Fatal server error: no screens found".

One digit could make a huge difference.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-27 Thread Erick Brunzell
I'm also effected by this bug, but with quite different symptoms. I also know 
this is quite long so I'll try to break things up very well. 
 
First of all the hardware involved is Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated 
Graphics Controller (rev 02) with a Hanns-G 22" LCD. That same hardware has 
worked properly with all versions of Ubuntu from Hardy up through Maverick 
Beta. The default will normally be 1680x1...@61hz.

I've been monitoring the daily builds more closely than usual following
changes to the new ubiquity and beginning about September 16th the Live
CD would result in the monitor spitting the error message "Input signal
out of range". Oddly I have a fully updated Maverick installed that
began with the toolchain upload May 22nd and I've not been able to
reproduce this bug on it.

However I do have two additional Mavericks on this machine leftover from
Beta upgrade and iso-testing, so over the weekend I booted into the one
installed for iso-testing, fully updated it, and was presented with the
"out-of-range" error on reboot. That's a good thing as it's much easier
to fiddle with an installed OS than a Live CD or USB.

I have tried a number of things:

1) Creating a known good xorg.conf w/a default resolution of
1440x...@60hz.

2) Editing "/etc/gdm/Init/Default" and/or "/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default"
to default to 1440x...@60hz.

Note: both 1 & 2 are options I've used for some time due to poor vision.

3) Suspecting it may be KMS related I tried two different mainline
kernels - 2.6.35-02063504 & 2.6.35-02063506.

None of the above worked, but the installed "non-working" Maverick will
boot if I choose Recovery Mode from the grub menu and then choose
FailsafeX, however I've tried the Live CD with many options including
"nomodeset"  and "i915.modeset=1" which both result in the "out-of-
range" error, and also "i915.modeset=1" which drops me to a TTY, and if
I try startx I just get the error "Fatal server error: no screens
found".

I should also mention that this i945 works OK with my old 17" CRT, and
an old machine w/VIA P4M800 graphics still works OK with the 22" LCD.

Finally this AM MacUntu from the forums pointed me to this bug and sure
as heck if I uncheck "turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup" in gconf
booting works normally and defaults to my custom resolution of
1440x...@60hz either upon reboot or if I restart gdm.

Oddly the working Maverick that began with the toolchain upload has
"turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup" checked in gconf and it's working
OK. Odd, eh?

I think I'll leave the working Maverick alone rather than try to break
it, but I am going to try and get a TTY in the current daily live i386
and see if editing gconf will allow it to boot w/startx.

I'll be glad to do any testing requested or to attach any requested
info, but I'm beyond clueless so please be as complete as possible in
your requests.

I'd expect iso-testing for the RC to begin very soon and I'd think we
need to at least address this in the release notes.

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-27 Thread Erick Brunzell
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-17 Thread Hernando Torque
Ok, so this seems to have been triggered by the change in defaults in
version 2.31.91-0ubuntu3 (turn on ext. monitors).

Setting
'apps/gnome_settings_daemon/xrandr/turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup'
to false for the user gdm made this bug go away in the current version.
That key has been introduced with version 2.31.91-0ubuntu1:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/maverick/gnome-
settings-daemon/maverick/revision/109/plugins/xrandr/gsd-xrandr-
manager.c#plugins/xrandr/gsd-xrandr-manager.c

>From the ways to get the value for 'config' in the method
'apply_default_boot_configuration', only  'config = make_laptop_setup
(screen);' seems to work (= as soon as enabling
turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup, I see the 60 Hz).
'make_clone_setup' and 'make_other_setup' will call
'gnome_rr_mode_get_freq' at some point, which will return bogus because
my monitor's EDID is invalid.

$ xrandr -q
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024  50.0*51.0 53.0

---

Due to all the patches I'm not sure if that's an upstream bug. This
should affect all users that have a monitor without EDID (got to be an
old one) or invalid EDID (have seen a couple of models on the video
driver section of the freedesktop bug tracker).

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-17 Thread Hernando Torque
** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
  
- Starting with version 2.31.91-0ubuntu2, my CRT monitor starts with a
+ Starting with version 2.31.91-0ubuntu1, my CRT monitor starts with a
  refresh rate of 60 Hz (overriding the 75 Hz set in xorg.conf). Using
  nvidia-settings to manually set it back to 75 Hz works, but after
  restarting gnome-settings-daemon it's back to 60 Hz.
  
  Running g-s-d with --debug shows following when starting the xrandr
  plugin:
  
  ** (gnome-settings-daemon:15901): DEBUG: Activating xrandr plugin
  ** (gnome-settings-daemon:15901): DEBUG: Starting xrandr manager
  === clone setup Configuration ===
Output: Unknown attached to default
   status: on
   width: 1280
   height: 1024
   rate: 53
   position: 0 0
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.31.92-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-21.31-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-21-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Sep 16 22:47:21 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon

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[Bug 640807] Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

2010-09-16 Thread Hernando Torque

** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
   
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