No Video after 6.1 beta 2 install

[esantos]

Originally Posted by jbrandwood

It looks like a lot of people have had problems with the X server's automatic detection in Debian Lenny (as used by the new Untangle 6.1).

I've solved the problem by adding a few lines to /etc/xorg.conf to limit the X Server's virtual resolution which causes it to ignore the higher resolution modes that my graphics card is capable of displaying.

So for a 1280x1024 monitor edit /etc/xorg.conf and change ...

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

to ...

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        SubSection "Display"
                Virtual         1280 1024
        EndSubSection
EndSection

I differ from this solution, I found following config:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "PreferredMode" "1400x1050"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
.
.
.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection


The PreferredMode and Modes is the key.

[ssriram23]

I have the exact same issue but I do not have a monitor larger than 17" here. I had enabled SSH on my server though and was able to get to the path specified in the posts using putty. But the file has nothing in it! I have already double checked the path and the file name. Any suggestions?

[sky-knight]

the real path is /etc/X11/xorg.conf... but mine is empty as well.

Also, I see an xorg-untangle-vesa.conf

So I'm not sure which to edit. Also, I'm not used to lenny... I'm used to playing with a TTYS file to configure the graphical boot loader. In this case I can't even find the TTYS file and nothing obvious is in rc5.d.

Ok the path I posted at the top is correct.

Apparently the XOrg project is trying to phase out the use of the xorg.conf file outright. The current version of XWindows wants to autodetect everything. However, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is a place you an set global override settings for Xorg, I also found some indication of a user level override as well. Interesting stuff.

[DodgeIt]

After the upgrade to 6.1 my display is running in VGA mode, (I can only see about half the screen on a 20" display), I've followed the threads and see the options for forcing resolution but when I view the xorg.conf file I find that it contains no data. I also checked the xorg-untangle-vesa.conf file and see a section that reads:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Other than the video glitch everything seems to be working, I'm running dedicated boxes, that are using the integrated video, (NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Graphics).

Do I understand Sky-knight correctly in that if I add the section to the xorg.conf file I can force the resolution? I believe I saw somewhere else that the file didn't appear to be read any longer.

O.K. After searching some of the Debian forums, I found an additional line that I added to my xorg.conf file to get the resolution set. Starting with esantos sample above:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "PreferredMode" "1400x1050"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
.
.
.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I did the following:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModeLine "1280x1024_60.00"
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
.
.
.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

This allowed me to set the resolution back to 1280x1024, using the Ctrl+ALT+Backspace keys to reload the XServer. The original lines didn't work until I added the ModeLine, also the Virtual screen didn't seem to work, possible for the same reason...

[ronsrussell]

I cannot get a terminal - it just tries to restart X which will not display because of the resolution problem. This is a new install on Dell PE850 (I have several of these running older releases just fine). In this case I installed the 6.0 iso (because the 6.1 did not seem to work) and then it did the upgrade before I opened the terminal so I have not set the root password. If I had a password I could use ctrl, alt, f1 to get another vt and then modify the xorg.conf. Anyone know when this will be fixed? I guess I could reinstall 6.0 and set the root password before allowing the upgrade.

[abbuba]

I have the same issue on at least 2 of my untangles, one that is IN SERVICE and got the update (you can remote into it, but you can not use the terminal screen any longer after the update) and the other that I installed yesterday.

The hardware is different on both boxes that I have confirmed the problem, but I have SEVERAL in the field running the configuration that I installed yesterday.

Shuttle Glamor XPC
AMD x2
Onboard Nvidia Geforce 7025

Although I can get around the problem here, if I should have one of my remote units go down, I will have to bring it in to repair it.

That begs the question as to when this will be patched (and why the 6.1 went out of Beta and onto live boxes) when apparently this has been a known issue for over 3 weeks while it was in a beta state.

Please advise

[coreybrett]

Originally Posted by NimRod

During my 6.1 beta 2 install I get to the point where the new "black" untangle screen shows the progress bar at the bottom of the screen. Once it gets to the end my monitor turns off and gives me the "unable to display video. Unsupported resolution". I have tried this on 3 different monitors and also tried to boot with hardware recovery mode and I am getting the same results. Any thoughts...?

Thanks,
NimRod
BTW, this is on a Dell Vostro 220s

I'm having the same issue with an ASUS P5M2-E/4L motherboard that has Volari XGI Z7 based video.

[ronsrussell]

SUCCESS!!
After mucking about with this for a few days, during which time I used to reread all of the posts a few hundred times, I finally got it right. Here is what I did in sequence.

Install using the 6.0 iso.
Before initiating an upgrade, start the terminal session and create a password.
Initiate an upgrade by selecting open source packages.
After the upgrade, using putty from a windows PC, ssh into UT.
Initiate this command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" (thanks to jbrandwood's post at http://forums.untangle.com/installat...deo-issue.html)
Then (again thanks to jbrandwood's post at http://forums.untangle.com/installat...install-2.html) edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this:
Change this:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

to ...

this:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubSection
EndSection

And then restart X with ctrl, alt, bkspce.

[lschafroth]

I tried this and now my console looks the same, but I have to scroll around to see the whole window. It's like it created a larger virtual desktop but the image displayed is only a smaller portion of that. When you move the mouse to the right, the screen scrolls to the right.

How do I get it to change to 1024x768 without all the scrolling? Maybe even 1280x1024.

HP DL380 G3.

By the way, this thing booted in 68 seconds. I thought that was awfull quick.

Lannie

[sky-knight]

Virtual 1280 1024 means a virtual view port of 1280px wide and 1024 px tall...

So perhaps this config?

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection