[Bug 3731] Re: Xorg resolution falling back to 640x480 and/or 800x600 when h/v freqs incorrect

2007-10-20 Thread Checkmate
Attached is a patch for the file "ddcprobe/ddcprobe.c" in xresprobe. Here is the REAL spec for the "aspect" field of a standard timing descriptor: 00: 16/10 01: 4/3 10: 5/4 11: 16/9 After applying this patch, it mostly works. There's no more 1680x1680 or 1440x1440 when I do "sudo dpkg-reconfigure

[Bug 3731] Re: Xorg resolution falling back to 640x480 and/or 800x600 when h/v freqs incorrect

2007-10-20 Thread Checkmate
I doubt the 64-bitness is a problem here, because it got the EDID data from my monitor. The vesa driver has to use an x86 emulator to run code from the video BIOS, but I think it manages that fine (Fine here, but not on my Tecra 8000). I looked at the source code for ddcprobe (part of xresprobe) a