** Description changed: Binary package hint: xorg Resolution detection on a Tecra 8000 laptop fails due to bad video BIOS usage. This conversation on the X.Org mailing list sums it up: > Julien Cristau wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 20:13:15 -0700, Nolan Check wrote: >> >>> I own a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. The display device is a NeoMagic >>> MagicGraph256AV, which uses the NM2200 chipset. The monitor goes up to >>> 1024x768. When I install Xubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5 (with latest updates), it >>> fails to detect the screen resolutions properly. It maxes out at 640x480 >>> until I adjust the HorizSync and VertSync parameters in >>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The reason for this seems to be that X.Org fails to >>> call the video BIOS function to get monitor data. (See attached >>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log) >>> >>> During the VBE DDC transfer, it gets "01 ILLEGAL X86 EXTENDED OPCODE". >>> That indicates the opcode "0F 01", correct? The INVPLG instruction. >>> >> Looks a bit like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11842 . >> See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404885#46 >> >> Julien > > Wow, it's just a one-character change to the code! I'd really like to try > that patch. I guess it's time for me to figure out how to compile X.Org. Note: INVPLG is probably a red herring. - I first wrote about this in bug 1371. + I first wrote about this in bug 3731.
-- Resolution detection fails because of bad video BIOS usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146643 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
