Corrupted display with Fedora 7 test 4 live, Intel 965 chipset and wide monitor

Davide Bolcioni dblistsub-fedora at yahoo.it
Wed May 2 14:29:58 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:22:17 Tom London wrote:
> On 5/2/07, Davide Bolcioni <dblistsub-fedora at yahoo.it> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I tried the Fedora 7 test 4 KDE live CD on a workstation with
> >
> >   00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965
> > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> >
> > and a
> >
> >   (II) I810(0): Monitor name: BenQ FP202W
> >
> > resulting in a visually corrupted display. Taking a screenshot shows no
> > corruption, so I guess the problem is with the display timings: the
> > display is skewed to the right, with a large blank area on the left, and
> > "ghosts" of the graphics appear overlapped a few pixels to the right and
> > down of the original. The live CD was i386 and the CPU is x86_64, I am in
> > the process of downloading the x86_64 live CD to see if it makes any
> > difference.
> >
> > Under Fedora 6, the display shows no such corruption, although it works
> > at 1024x768 instead of at aspect-correct resolutions. Which is the
> > appropriate component in Bugzilla for this, the server or the i810 driver
> > (which I guess includes the intel driver) ?
> >
> > Thank you for your consideration,
> > Davide Bolcioni
> > --
>
> Try running 'xrandr --rate 60' and see if that fixes things.

To get things fixed, I had to (a) force the monitor to auto-adjust, which 
caused the large blank area to the left to go away, and (b) use xrandr to 
remove the ghosting effect.

> See BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236414

I'll add further comments and logs there.

Thank you for your consideration,
Davide Bolcioni
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