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[harelb <barzilai@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

I am very much a newbie and most of the information below is information
I gathered when experienced people at ubuntuforums.org asked me to
perform these steps (in other words, I do not know much about "randr" or
the other steps so if you need more info, I'll be happy to try to get it
but please don't assume I understood  what exactly I did in those steps)

1 MONITOR: My monitor, purchased at the beginning of 2007 at Best Buy is
an Insignia 15" LCD TV that again, worked perfectly for Ubuntu 6.
Specifications since I have the manual for the Insignia in front of me:
Display type: "Color TFT LCD" pixel type "RGB stripe" Active screen size
"15 inches diagonall" Maximum resolution "1024x768"

2. When I had the Dapper Drake ubuntu installed by a friend on my
machine, Ubuntu/X understood my monitor's resolution without any problem

3. When I upgraded from version 6.X to 8.04 in summer 2008, the
resolution would only work up to 800x600. When I purchased a Live CD
with ubuntu 9.1 for the entire drive to 'start everything from scratch'
I thought it would fix these issues but again, it could not understand
the monitor (not only an inconvenience but it also meant some software I
could not run since the dialog boxes' buttons were outside the window's
area that was visible/clickable) The rest of the information below is
based on suggestions from people at ubuntuforums.org who put a lot of
effort, much appreciated, into helping resolve this but ultimately did
not find a solution..hopefully this information however will help for
this bug report.

- - -rest of information (now under my 9.10 system still having monitor
resolution problems)

** typing  xrandr results in:

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   800x600        60.0*    56.0  
   640x480        60.0

**  A copy of the Xorg.0.log file is here:

http://barzilai.org/ubuntu/Xorg.0.log

** lastly, the long output in response to "sudo apt-get install read-
edid"  which was also suggested to me to try, is copy/pasted below:

harel@harel-desktop:~$ sudo get-edid|parse-edid > edid.txt
parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0

	Performing real mode VBE call
	Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
	Function supported
	Call successful

	VBE version 300
	VBE string at 0xc61a9 "VIA K8M800
"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
	Report DDC capabilities

	Performing real mode VBE call
	Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
	Function supported
	Call successful

	Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
	Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
	0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
	Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
	Read EDID

	Performing real mode VBE call
	Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
	Function supported
	Call failed

The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
Error: output block unchanged
parse-edid: IO error reading EDID
harel@harel-desktop:~$

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The end of the bug report. And again, the resolution worked perfectly
under Drake. I know I am not misremembering that, since when the latest
trouble began (Dec 2009) I booted in recovery mode and was able to get
into another partitionthat still had Dapper Drake..and sure enough, the
screen resolution was perfect. Having installed afresh the 9.10 ubuntu I
no long have access to Drake, but under Drake my monitor was understood
perfectly by the system..I'm hoping the angels of mercy who get this
report can fix this bug..you will have my deep gratitude if you do (and
for your efforts even if you don't) Thanks! :-)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan  5 23:16:21 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=551898f8-2b92-4ed7-b60e-9085cb234261 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1569): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1569): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1625): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1641): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (firefox:1859): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
dmi.bios.date: 09/26/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: K8M800-8237
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd09/26/2005:svn:pn:pvr:rvn:rnK8M800-8237:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       i686kernel:             2.6.31-16-generic

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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Screen resolution used to be ok in Ubuntu 6, not in 8.04 and later
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/503674
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