After upgrading to 7.3, settings in xorg.conf are not obeyed

[Andy Fawcett]

On Wednesday 19 September 2007 15:02:08 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> Have you checked the output of "xrandr" to see if 1600x1200 is
> listed?

Yes, I checked the output (I saw your earlier mails about this), and it 
was listed at all appropriate refresh rates.

> The radeon driver in the ports tree was buggy for me in that regard. 
> It insisted I had a monitor connected to only one DVI port and
> something hooked up to the S-Video port.  I had to manually upgrade
> the driver to the latest available in the freedesktop git repo to get
> the driver to properly detect my monitors.

I considered that, but last night when I wanted to do this git was 
down :(



> Adam
>
> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 06:25:05 Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yesterday I upgraded my ports to include the xorg 7.3
> >
> > After restarting, xorg ignored any settings in my xorg.conf to use
> > 1600x1200 as my desktop resolution, and chose a much lower
> > resolution (1152 by something, can't recall exactly).
> >
> > I tried for several hours to get the right resolution, including
> > forcing options to ignore EDID/DDC info, and in the end I put back
> > 7.2 from packages and it all worked correctly again.
> >
> > I'm using the ati driver, hardware is
> >
> > drm0 at pci1:0:0:  class=0x030000 card=0x7c20174b chip=0x41511002
> > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
> >     device     = 'Radeon 9600 (RV350)'
> >     class      = display
> >     subclass   = VGA
> >
> > with a CRT on the 15 pin connector (through a KVM, but same happens
> > with direct connection).
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't have logfiles available at the moment, and I
> > won't be able to check further before the weekend.
> >
> > Please cc me on any responses, I am not on the list.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Andy
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