Latitude D505, BIOS A11

[Jaroslaw Gorny]

Hi,

Tuesday 13 of March 2007 16:11:45 Michael E Brown napisał(a):
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:30:59AM +0100, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> > Hi,
> > At work I've got Latitude D505 with FC6.
> > After upgrading BIOS to A11 version there's a problem with LCD display on
> > Linux. In graphical mode on the top of the screen there's a horizontal
> > stripe (7mm height) spreading across the whole screen. It is mostly
> > green, but generally shows some "garbage".
> > And the "normal" image is shifted down this 7mm.
> >
> > Downgrade to A09 BIOS solves this problem.
>
> Do you have Intel Graphics?
Yes,
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated 
Graphics Device (rev 02)

> Which Linux distribution/version are you using? 
Fedora Core 6

>
> If Intel, have you tried the modesetting branch of xorg? It looks like
> Fedora 7 will have this, so it might take care of this problem.

I've tried modesetting branch some weeks ago, but it didn't solve my main 
issue (currently i810 Xorg driver doesn't allow me to set native resolution - 
1400x1050). So I gave it up.

BTW. To get 1400x1050 I use 915resolution patch. Without this I am able only 
to get 1024x768 (which is not native to this display and looks ugly).

And the results are as follows:

A09 BIOS
1024x768 (without 915resolution): image OK
1400x1050 (with 915resolutioN): image OK

A11 BIOS
1024x768 (without 915resolution): image BAD
1400x1050 (with 915resolutioN): image BAD

> Otherwise, 
> you can download and try it out to see if it works. Can you posts your

My time resources are very limited. I'll try to play with modesetting branch 
at the end of the week.

> /var/log/Xorg.0.log from both the working and non-working BIOS?
>
http://rmrmg.com/jaroslav/d505-logs/
Currently only from A09. I'll flash BIOS again and then upload results when 
running on A11 (I'll let You know when I'm ready).

> In the past, I have seen something similar on my D500 laptop, but only when
> I used the Fn-F8 key to try to switch between LCD and CRT, and only on
> older versions of X.
This is not the case. I never use [Fn]+[F8] keys ;)

thanks and regards,



-- 
Jaroslaw Gorny

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