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Post by joncrndl on Jun 12, 2010 20:37:30 GMT -5
KNOS shows this monitor as "unknown". It is the Samsung SyncMaster 731B which does 1280x1024 @ 60hz.
The good news is that this works well at 800x600. It is responsive once the code is memory.
The Firefox browser is working well.
It is looking very good!
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jun 12, 2010 21:06:33 GMT -5
KNOS shows this monitor as "unknown". It is the Samsung SyncMaster 731B which does 1280x1024 @ 60hz. The good news is that this works well at 800x600. It is responsive once the code is memory. The Firefox browser is working well. It is looking very good! Hiya! Well ... looks like the NVidia motherboard chipset is not supported. We took the liberty of removing your attachment - for the benefit of others, we'd rather have the diagnostics come to us through email. Though there's no personally identifying info in KNOS or its diagnostics, don't need to show the world what's in your box. Diagnostics say: none0@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x050000 card=0x2a3e103c chip=0x02f010de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Nvidia Corp' device = 'C51 Host Bridge' And that indicates that I need to file a PR with the kernel team to add support for that chipset - that's why the monitor isn't being detected properly. Hope to have this fixed in the next release and THANKS for the heads-up! |
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Post by joncrndl on Jun 12, 2010 21:28:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the quick feed back!!
I am now running from a different computer and it is taking advantage of the full screen resolution. The Acer 24 screen looks real good with KNOS. :-)
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jun 12, 2010 21:41:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the quick feed back!! I am now running from a different computer and it is taking advantage of the full screen resolution. The Acer 24 screen looks real good with KNOS. :-) Your other one will as well once we find out why the NVidia motherboard chipset comes up as an unknown. I know NVidia is kinda protective of their proprietaries, but we're nice folks and the BSD license isn't like GPL - we can actually *do* an NDA and not have to squeal if they're willing to tell us how to talk to that beach sand and our lips will remain sealed if that's what they want. For now though, gotta kick that complaint up the pipe and see what can be done about it. As always, THANKS for finding the mystery meat! Want mustard or kraut on that?  |
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Post by joncrndl on Jun 12, 2010 22:26:39 GMT -5
What is odd, is the previous version, Ubuntu 9.10 does work. It is stuff in the Ubuntu 10.04 branch that does not work. This is Ubuntu 10.04, Kubuntu 10.04 and Linux Mint 9 are the one that I have tried. It was just odd. Thanks for sharing the useful information. I will stop beating my head against THAT wall. :-)
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jun 13, 2010 0:58:36 GMT -5
What is odd, is the previous version, Ubuntu 9.10 does work. It is stuff in the Ubuntu 10.04 branch that does not work. This is Ubuntu 10.04, Kubuntu 10.04 and Linux Mint 9 are the one that I have tried. It was just odd. Thanks for sharing the useful information. I will stop beating my head against THAT wall. :-) Not an ounce of Linux stuff in OUR code, have been in touch with the BSD folks and apparently your particular chipset has NEVER worked in BSD at all. Best explanation I have so far from a Linux coder is that there's some sort of regression in NVidia's OWN code on the Linux side - as far as BSD goes, there's been an open PR on that chipset since 2009. And unfortunately, word is that NVidia isn't terribly cooperative with GPL stuff owing to the onerous restrictions of GPL on proprietary code. Our BSD people seem to think that they can approach NVidia and perhaps solve this, but it won't be available to Linux. Just the way things work sometimes. Hopefully we'll have good news on this for the next version prior to this one expiring and needing to be replaced. |
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Post by joncrndl on Jun 14, 2010 1:50:21 GMT -5
I understand what you are saying about the problem in the Nvidia chipset. At least your default video did give me a usable display at 800x600, which is more than Ubuntu 10.04 did.
Thanks for the feedback. It is very helpful.
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jun 14, 2010 2:08:21 GMT -5
I understand what you are saying about the problem in the Nvidia chipset. At least your default video did give me a usable display at 800x600, which is more than Ubuntu 10.04 did. Thanks for the feedback. It is very helpful. Ooch! (and you're MOST welcome!) If the best it can do with that motherboard is 800x600, then sorry to say that's as good as it gets. Xorg knows that at least VGA will have to be there since there's no more monochrome monitors. But if the 1024 isn't showing up, then it means that X could not probe the montherboard and find out what monitor you have from the "plug and pray" stuff and therefore didn't want to make available a mode that could possibly fry an antique. Since VGA is guaranteed, that was the best it could offer without video clock mode information. I've filed a PR on your chipset a little while ago to the kernel people and we'll see if anyone's interested in coming up with a fix for it. Will let you know if there's happy news. |
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