Bug 397

Summary:	bad looks during installation: small black stripes on sides
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dan Joita <djmarian4u>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	dvgevers, marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	picture of looks xorg.conf

Description Dan Joita 2011-03-16 18:04:59 CET

Description of problem:
the picture shows it all
i have a 23 inch 16/9full hd display, and maybe that's the problem

How reproducible:
allways

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Dan Joita 2011-03-16 18:05:13 CET

Priority: Normal => Low

Comment 1 Dan Joita 2011-03-16 18:07:52 CET

Created attachment 127 [details]
picture of looks

i think something is missing

Dan Joita 2011-03-16 18:09:42 CET

Component: Release (media, process) => Installation

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2011-03-16 19:17:27 CET

Did you switch to any virtual terminal (i.e. by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F1) then back to Alt+Ctrl+F7?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 3 Dick Gevers 2011-03-16 21:21:10 CET

Also possible that the monitor prefers a resolution not yet uploaded to the database, i.e. missing in xorg.conf.

CC: (none) => dvgevers

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-17 14:32:18 CET

The installer only uses 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions.
The monitor _must_ support those.
Yours somewhat support them

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Severity: minor => enhancement

Comment 5 Ahmad Samir 2011-03-17 16:26:20 CET

I think this is the gtk-widget-blanks bug (i.e. I sometimes see something similar with MageiaUpdate and rpmdrake while the download progress dialogue is displayed... however even the dialogue itself blanks out).

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-17 17:07:08 CET

I don't think so.
The screenshot explicitely points the unused space at left & right

Comment 7 Dan Joita 2011-03-17 19:31:35 CET

(In reply to comment #2)
i did not switch
(In reply to comment #3)
i think it prefers 1920x1080
(In reply to comment #4)
mandriva also only uses those resolutions and the problem doesn't exist with mdv

Comment 8 Dick Gevers 2011-03-17 21:35:30 CET

Dan you wrote "i think it prefers...".

Please run (as root):
# monitor-edit --MonitorsDB

and the result should tell you for sure. If not, it is a model missing in de db and needs addition, but I don't guess that that is so by the looks of your attachment ;)

The same values ought to be (I believe) shown in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Please check that the values are the same (or not).

Comment 9 Dan Joita 2011-03-17 22:30:38 CET

[root@localhost dan]# monitor-edit --MonitorsDB
bash: monitor-edit: command not found

Comment 10 Dan Joita 2011-03-17 22:31:44 CET

Created attachment 138 [details]
xorg.conf

Comment 11 Dick Gevers 2011-03-17 23:10:11 CET

oops, stupid typo: ...edid..., not ...edit...

Comment 12 Dick Gevers 2011-03-17 23:14:06 CET

When you get a chance, please change the attachment type to 'plain text'. Thanks!

D Morgan 2011-03-17 23:57:25 CET

Attachment 138 mime type: application/octet-stream => text/plain

Comment 13 Dan Joita 2011-03-18 07:21:21 CET

BENQ; BENQ G2320HDB; BNQ7828; 24-83; 50-76; 1920x1080

Comment 14 Dick Gevers 2011-03-18 08:26:53 CET

Thanks. So during install monitor-edid worked properly, as per preferred modeline in xorg.conf.

Ahmad Samir 2011-04-21 18:24:32 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 15 Thierry Vignaud 2011-08-06 13:13:41 CEST

Which is irrelevant since the installer will never try to use the preferred resolution but just 800x600 or 1024x768

Comment 16 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-09 15:00:50 CEST

(In reply to comment #15)
> Which is irrelevant since the installer will never try to use the preferred
> resolution but just 800x600 or 1024x768

@ Thierry
You mean this can't be solved? In that case, this bug can be closed.

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 17 Thierry Vignaud 2011-10-10 10:14:52 CEST

This only means that preferred resolution won't help the installer.

Summary: bad looks during instalation => bad looks during installation: small black stripes on sides

Marja Van Waes 2011-10-23 17:51:10 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 18 Dan Joita 2011-11-03 00:10:20 CET

i can say this bug is solved, at least in my case

Comment 19 Dan Joita 2011-11-03 00:10:54 CET

...

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 20 Thierry Vignaud 2011-12-14 20:47:56 CET

BTWÂ I added your monitor to the ldetect DB