[SOLVED]Cant get video drivers sorted out on openbox install

Question

I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver with a ATI radeon 7850 and would like to avoid using the catalyst driver unless it's my last resort. I'm doing an install with lightdm and openbox. I followed that wiki which basically says to install the driver and it should autodetect my resolution with no problems. Well I've been stuck at 1024x768 for a day now.
I went through the xorg log file and was unable to figure out what exactly is wrong myself, but here it is: http://pastebin.com/E46sv47N
As far as I can tell the correct drivers loaded but the resolution was set wrong. although if I plug in an hdmi cable in place of the DVI nothing happens and I get a black screen.
I'm trying to get a 1920x1080 resolution but the closest I've gotten is what looks like 1920x1080 squished over to the right side of the screen with a large black bar to the left side. I "accomplished" that by executing the following:
[archer@arch ~]$ cvt 1920 1080
# 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz
Modeline "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
[archer@arch ~]$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
[archer@arch ~]$ xrandr --addmode DVI-1 1920x1080_60.00
[archer@arch ~]$ xrandr --output DVI-1 --mode 1920x1080_60.00
Anyone have an Idea what I'm doing wrong here?
Last edited by roottoor (2014-07-20 02:15:58)

Answer 1

emeres wrote:
Use
xrandr --props
to get EDID data and the decode it using edid-decode. Did you try using DVI-0 instead of DVI-1?
It gave me
xrandr --props
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
dither: off
supported: off, on
audio: auto
supported: off, on, auto
underscan vborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan hborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan: off
supported: off, on, auto
coherent: 1
range: (0, 1)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
dither: off
supported: off, on
audio: auto
supported: off, on, auto
underscan vborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan hborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan: off
supported: off, on, auto
coherent: 1
range: (0, 1)
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
dither: off
supported: off, on
audio: auto
supported: off, on, auto
underscan vborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan hborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan: off
supported: off, on, auto
coherent: 1
range: (0, 1)
DVI-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
load detection: 1
range: (0, 1)
dither: off
supported: off, on
audio: auto
supported: off, on, auto
underscan vborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan hborder: 0
range: (0, 128)
underscan: off
supported: off, on, auto
coherent: 1
range: (0, 1)
1024x768 60.00*
800x600 60.32 56.25
848x480 60.00
640x480 59.94
also here's this
xrandr --props | edid-decode
Extracted contents:
header: 53 63 72 65 65 6e 20 30
serial number: 3a 20 6d 69 6e 69 6d 75 6d 20
version: 33 32
basic params: 30 20 78 20 32
chroma info: 30 30 2c 20 63 75 72 72 65 6e
established: 74 20 31
standard: 39 32 30 20 78 20 31 30 38 30 2c 20 6d 61 78 69
descriptor 1: 6d 75 6d 20 31 36 33 38 34 20 78 20 31 36 33 38 34 0a
descriptor 2: 44 69 73 70 6c 61 79 50 6f 72 74 2d 30 20 64 69 73 63
descriptor 3: 6f 6e 6e 65 63 74 65 64 20 28 6e 6f 72 6d 61 6c 20 6c
descriptor 4: 65 66 74 20 69 6e 76 65 72 74 65 64 20 72 69 67 68 74
extensions: 20
checksum: 78
No header found
Manufacturer: NQ@ Model 696d Serial Number 1970104686
EDID version: 51.50
Analog display, Input voltage level: 0.714/0.286 V
Configurable signal levels
Sync:
Maximum image size: 32 cm x 120 cm
Gamma: 1.32
DPMS levels: Off
Non-RGB color display
First detailed timing is preferred timing
Established timings supported:
720x400@88Hz
640x480@60Hz
640x480@67Hz
640x480@75Hz
832x624@75Hz
Standard timings supported:
704x704@110Hz
632x632@92Hz
1208x1208@92Hz
640x640@108Hz
696x696@108Hz
600x600@92Hz
1120x840@93Hz
1208x906@101Hz
Detailed mode: Clock 300.610 MHz, 817 mm x 822 mm
877 929 1473 1165 hborder 56
822 829 837 2921 vborder 52
+hsync -vsync bipolar analog composite
Detailed mode: Clock 269.480 MHz, 1584 mm x 1056 mm
1651 1762 2388 4835 hborder 105
1377 1432 1452 1498 vborder 115
+hsync -vsync analog composite side by side interleaved
Detailed mode: Clock 282.710 MHz, 1650 mm x 365 mm
1646 1934 2486 2515 hborder 108
1652 1706 1768 2777 vborder 32
-hsync +vsync bipolar analog composite four way interleaved
Detailed mode: Clock 262.130 MHz, 1568 mm x 2418 mm
1652 2022 2650 3988 hborder 103
1646 1668 1673 3044 vborder 104
-hsync +vsync digital composite four way interleaved
Has 32 extension blocks
Checksum: 0x78 (should be 0xa1)
EDID block does not conform at all!
Block has broken checksum
Bad year of manufacture
Bad week of manufacture
Manufacturer name field contains garbage
Also I have not tried dvi-0, that should be my other DVI-D port and I need the DVI-I.
Last edited by roottoor (2014-06-21 00:57:33)