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Xrandr output problem , unicrome (p4m800 pro)

i had to change to an older pc due to some recent events :) and i could only get my hands on an old board from a company ive never even herd of (esys) and it has the via p4m800 pro chipset , the driver is installed and every thing but evey time i try to add an out put through xrandr i get this

Code:

:~$ xrandr

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768

default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm

  1024x768      60.0* 

  800x600        60.0    56.0  

  640x480        60.0

lspci ...

:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2500 Wireless 802.11bg (rev 01)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)

Code:

:~$ xrandr --newmode "1600x1200_60.00"  161.00  1600 1712 1880 2160  1200 1203 1207 1245 -hsync +vsync

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Code:

:~$ xrandr

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768

default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm

  1024x768      60.0* 

  800x600        60.0    56.0  

  640x480        60.0  

  1600x1200_60.00 (0x131)  161.0MHz

        h: width  1600 start 1712 end 1880 total 2160 skew    0 clock  74.5KHz

        v: height 1200 start 1203 end 1207 total 1245          clock  59.9Hz

when i try to set the output i can't i don't even know what linux default name for the screen is , i have tried screen 0 /screen0 and the intel VGA1 .
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Code:

:~$ xrandr --output screen0 --mode "1600x1200_60.00"

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

warning: output screen0 not found; ignoring



:~$ xrandr --output VGA1 --mode "1600x1200_60.00"

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

warning: output VGA1 not found; ignoring

am going to bump this cuz ihate my current res, i have tried a look at other forums and faQs i keep getting told to edit my Xorg.config file in X11, but i don't have one (i don,t think 12.04 Lts has one .) but ive even tried to make one and copy and paste , still no good

well i found some one with the same problem on another site and it turned out his EDID info was wrong. so i checked mine and for some reason it can't read the last block. what do you think this could mean ?

Code:

get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0



        Performing real mode VBE call

        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0

        Function supported

        Call successful



        VBE version 300

        VBE string at 0xc438d "VIA P4M800 PRO

"



VBE/DDC service about to be called

        Report DDC capabilities



        Performing real mode VBE call

        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0

        Function supported

        Call successful



        Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers

        Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers

        0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer

        Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer



Reading next EDID block



VBE/DDC service about to be called

        Read EDID



        Performing real mode VBE call

        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0

        Function supported

        Call failed



The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed

Error: output block unchanged

You are going to have to define screen resolutions for xrandr...

What are you outputting to as a monitor, and what is it's native resolution???

am using an acer 22inch (model x203w) its about 1680x1050

i finally found the screen name it was default >< so i tried xrandr --addmode default --mode <********> and i got this

Code:

:~$ xrandr --addmode default "1280x1024_60"

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default



:~$ xrandr --output default --mode "1280x1024_60"

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

which i think means the modelines am getting from cvt and gtf are wrong , is there another way to get the right one for my screen ?

1680x1050 is the correct resolution for that monitor. Try, "1680x1050_60" with xrandr...

Here is the configuration help page from Ubuntu's wiki for reference;
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Res...s_persistently

One more reference with what are probably your correct modelines:
http://wienker.org/blog/?p=32

i tried every mode line i can get my hands on, am still getting. xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

i don't even know what the next thing is . i can't even get a new board right now if i had enough money :( ....

Hmmm, ... Tried booting with a nomodeset option in grub, vs quicksplash?

no , how would i access the options in grub ??

well i tried to do nomodeset , i used

Code:

acpi_osi

and

Code:

acpi_osi="Linux"

both of them got me the same thing, after saving (f10) the comp would go to the os load screen and it was in a higher resolution higher than 1280x1024. but right before the log in screen shows up red text shows up changing really fast i can't read it clearly . then when i boot in the res goes all bad again. but that has happened before without me using nomodeset but ussually instead of the red TXT i get a window telling me am running in low graphics mode but i am unable to do any thing all my input devices don't work . when i restart it goes back to normal. this ussually happens randomly when i restart (sometimes not sometimes yes) . i saw i can set acpi_osi for windows

Code:

acpi_osi="windows 2006"

this is what al try next if any one has any thing else i can try in grub. like for exapmle i saw a gfx mode setting ... let me kno