Bug 364423

Summary:	Screen Resolution not supported
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Philippe Landau <lists>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	lists, sndirsch
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Attachments:	xorg configuration xorg log

Description Philippe Landau 2008-02-24 12:51:31 UTC

My 22 inch panel has a resolution of 1680x1050 (WSXGA+)
which is correctly recognised by Yast2 
but OpenSuse still uses a lower resolution without saying.

Novell's Sonja Krause-Harder had the same problem 
and had to use the proprietary Nvidia driver to solve the problem, 
even though she too would have preferred to avoid it.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-25 17:40:57 UTC

Do you use the analog or digital input of your monitor? Please attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Comment 2 Philippe Landau 2008-02-25 20:17:24 UTC

Created attachment 197012 [details]
xorg configuration

I use the DVI interface.

Comment 3 Philippe Landau 2008-02-25 20:19:00 UTC

Created attachment 197014 [details]
xorg log

Thank you.

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-25 21:08:09 UTC

Digital output is limited to the supported BIOS modes with the nv driver, but
the NVIDIA driver should be capable to support this mode when using the digital output. Novell cannot fix this. :-(

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-25 21:49:00 UTC

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:14:56 +0100
From: Philippe Landau <lists@user-land.org>
To: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com>
Subject: Screen resolution limited by Bios modes in nv driver

Hello Stefan Dirsch

Thanks for your reply to
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364423

> Digital output is limited to the supported BIOS modes with the nv driver,
> but the NVIDIA driver should be capable to support this mode when using the
> digital output. Novell cannot fix this. :-(
Why, who makes this limitation in the nv driver ?

Kind regards     Philippe

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-25 21:49:48 UTC

The driver is written and maintained by NVIDIA.

Comment 7 Philippe Landau 2008-02-25 22:00:09 UTC

Do they take input from others ?
Is Novell interested in having a good OpenSource driver for graphics cards ?

Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-25 22:10:35 UTC

We can be happy that there is an OpenSource driver for NVIDIA at all. This is a limitation, NVIDIA is aware about since years. Obviously it costs too much ressources for NVIDIA to add this feature to the OpenSource driver. Instead they concentrate on improving the proprietary driver. I suggest to switch to ATI (radeonhd driver) if you're not happy with this situation.

Comment 9 Philippe Landau 2008-02-25 22:32:27 UTC

This is interesting, thanks for your insight and your fast replies.

Nvidia makes 4 Billion Dollars per year.
If Linux accounts for 2% of their sales, 
thanks to the image they get from supporting OpenSource, 
writing the nv driver brings them millions annually.

If they don't fix this bug it is important to let buyers know 
that their OpenSource driver is now only a fig leaf.

Are the OpenSource drivers ATI now writes better ?
Are the tables turning ?

Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-25 22:46:52 UTC

Please continue this type of discussion on your favorite mailing list or IRC channel. Bugzilla is still just a bugreporting tool. Thanks.

Comment 11 Philippe Landau 2008-02-25 22:50:43 UTC

Where can i report this bug ?
It is not resolved.

Comment 12 Stefan Dirsch 2008-02-25 22:53:28 UTC

It's not a bug. It's a missing feaure. Feel free to contact NVIDIA.