Catalyst Ubuntu Samsung No 1080p

[Maickel]

Dear Phoronix members !

Recently i have bought a new screen , a Samsung Syncmaster P2370 FULL-HD.

The problem i have with this screen is that it only displays a native standard of 1600x900 , but this can be easely overided in catalyst 9.6 when i enable HDTV-SUPPORT and put modes in 1920x1080p , so i can work decently , now this all works perfectly in Windows.

Now i recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 and installed the latest drivers from ati (9.6) , it all went well but when i try to enable HDTV-SUPPORT , it says that i need to reboot to apply changes wich i do. but when its done rebooting i still cannot set it 1080p max i can get it to work in ubuntu is 1080i @ 30HZ via catalyst wich is a very bad and shaky display , now i have tryed to force xserver to display 1920x1080p but this simply doesnt work it crashes whole over the place :/ , i have readed alot of documentation and tutorials but i cant seem to find an awnser to this problem , iam also still kind of new to linux but ubuntu is easy to learn , so if someone can please help me to get my Samsung Syncmaster P2370 to display 1920x1080@60HZ , iam realy happy and i can use ubuntu as my main OS now , here are my spec's

CPU- Intel Core i7 920
Motherboard - GigaByte GA-EX58-UD5
RAM - Corsair 1333MHZ 6 GB kit
Hardrive - Raptopx 10.000 rpm 150GB
VGA - Sapphire Radeon 4870
Soundcard - Asus Xonar D2/PM

Best Regarts and thanks in advance !

Maickel

[Kano]

Maybe try the other possible display connector. It is highly unlikely that EDID reports 1600x900.

[Maickel]

Hi Kano yes i have tryed this also with differend DVI-CABLES and ports nothing works realy strange :S

[Kano]

Usually that monitor has VGA + DVI port. I never heart of a DVD cable.

[Maickel]

Usually that monitor has VGA + DVI port. I never heart of a DVD cable.

Yes i mean DVI so i tryed 2 differend DVI-D cables

1 DVI-D single link cable wich came with the monitor and
1 DVI-D dual link cable wich i have also here

Also i tryed from DVI to HDMI wich also doesnt work.

both cant display over 1600x900 in linux very weird , iam just unable to force it in HDTV-SUPPORT , to 1920x1080@60 , now in windows i have the same problem using catalyst 9.7 because the new gui doesnt supply decent HDTV-MODE , but i can fix this its not a issue , the problem is in ubuntu that iam unable to force it to the proper resolution if there is noway to fix this problem , i will go back to Nvidia :/

I Guess its a Batch fault of Samsung as you can see here

Monitor
Model name............... SyncMaster
Windows description...... Generic PnP Monitor
Manufacturer............. Samsung
Plug and Play ID......... SAM0528
Serial number............ H1AK500000
Manufacture date......... 2008, ISO week 51
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EDID revision............ 1.3
Input signal type........ Digital
Color bit depth.......... Undefined
Display type............. RGB color
Screen size.............. 440 x 250 mm (19,9 in)
Power management......... Active off/sleep
Extension blocs.......... None
-------------------------
DDC/CI................... n/a

Color characteristics
Default color space...... Non-sRGB
Display gamma............ 2,20
Red chromaticity......... Rx 0,650 - Ry 0,337
Green chromaticity....... Gx 0,295 - Gy 0,605
Blue chromaticity........ Bx 0,147 - By 0,075
White point (default).... Wx 0,313 - Wy 0,329
Additional descriptors... None

Timing characteristics
Horizontal scan range.... 30-81kHz
Vertical scan range...... 56-75Hz
Video bandwidth.......... 140MHz
CVT standard............. Not supported
GTF standard............. Not supported
Additional descriptors... None
Preferred timing......... Yes
Native/preferred timing.. 1600x900p at 60Hz
Modeline............... "1600x900" 108,000 1600 1624 1704 1800 900 901 904 1000 +hsync +vsync

Standard timings supported
720 x 400p at 70Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 60Hz - IBM VGA
640 x 480p at 67Hz - Apple Mac II
640 x 480p at 72Hz - VESA
640 x 480p at 75Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 56Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 60Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 72Hz - VESA
800 x 600p at 75Hz - VESA
832 x 624p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1024 x 768p at 60Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 70Hz - VESA
1024 x 768p at 75Hz - VESA
1152 x 870p at 75Hz - Apple Mac II
1152 x 864p at 75Hz - VESA STD
1280 x 800p at 60Hz - VESA STD
1440 x 900p at 60Hz - VESA STD

Report information
Date generated........... 26-7-2009
Software revision........ 2.30.0.797
Operating system......... 6.1.7600.2

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[Kano]

Well you can still try the VGA port.

[Maickel]

Well you can still try the VGA port.

I did , and you know what iam just going to write a EDID for it

[Maickel]

There's nothing wrong with the EDID , samsung says , the panel can handle 1080p but its native 1600x900 they told me , so can anyone tell me howto force this resolution in Xorg.conf ?

[Kano]

That's the standard way:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection      "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes "1920x1080" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

[Maickel]

Thanks Kano !

So i just need to paste this in xorg.conf and save and reboot ?