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Bug 541975 - GDM problem with Sony SDM-N80 digital monitor
GDM problem with Sony SDM-N80 digital monitor
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-07-08 02:49 UTC by rdjere
Modified: 2009-02-06 20:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24



Description rdjere 2008-07-08 02:49:23 UTC
Please describe the problem:
My computer system crashes during the GDM startup about 90% of the time. This has happened going all the way back to Fedora 4 but the problem has gotten consistently worse with each release. With Fedora 9, my system is now virtually useless (dual Athlon MP 2600+). A new problem started when I installed Fedora 9. Now Fedora configures the SDM-N80 for the wrong resolution. On a fresh install, GDM comes up with the horizontal axis compressed to about 80% of the full resolution available via the monitor. The monitor has adefault resolution of 1,280 x 1,024. It is correctly autoconfigured to this resolution, but the actual screen resolution is messed up as described above. To get the display to "look right", you have to set the resolution to 1280 by 960 resolution and the change only occurs once the user logs on. During the crashes that occur 90% of the time, the monitor loses the graphics card's output and blanks out. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Boot the computer.




Actual results:
Computer boots normally:
Loads kernel.
Starts services.
As soon as graphical login starts up, system crashes.

Expected results:
Crash.

Does this happen every time?
About 90% of the ti,e. For me to boot successful once, I usually have to reboot 9 or more times.

Other information:
I suspect that it is a gnome configuration problem. I installed Ubuntu once and the exact same thing happened. During the boot process, a message comes up that says something to the effect: SXGA selected, please select sxga. This message always occurs when the graphical part of the boot comes up at the apparently wrong resolution. This specific prblem did not start until Fedora 9.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2008-07-21 14:21:50 UTC
Can you please attach the X server log and the relevant logs from /var/log/gdm?  Thanks.
Comment 2 Tobias Mueller 2009-02-06 20:14:54 UTC
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!