I installed the ati-drivers-8.18.6 and first my computer didnt start correctly. it went black when starting xdm and xorg-x11, chrooted and went through fglrxconfig. then everything went fine on next boot except that my maximum refresh rate was 1024x768 instead of my usual 1280x1024 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge ati-drivers-8.18.6 2.restart xorg-x11 with new driver 3. Expected Results: Desktop with resolution 1280x1024 Emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf /dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi / /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" LANG="sv_SE" LC_ALL="sv_SE" LINGUAS="sv" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzlib cdda cd db cdio cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl directfb divx4linux djbfft dnd dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx fuse gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glut gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib jack java javascript jbig jpeg jun it kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc live lzo mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mysql ncurses network nls noamazon nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl osc oss pam pdflib perl png ppds pvm python qt quicktime readline real rtc scanner sdl slang sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tc ltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 vcd vidix visualization vorbi s win32codecs wmf xanim xine xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib linguas_sv userland_GNU ker nel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Any idea Matthew?
Reproduced locally after a reboot. Is maybe related to the usage of analog cable?
how can the cable make any difference if you update the driver? Or have they removed the option to have that resolution on the analog output? If I remember right I had the same/similar problem with 8.16* driver (currently using 8.14*
