Odd Westinghouse 37w3se problem... help?

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I'm having an issue with my LVM-37w3se not displaying text resolutions (i.e. BIOS screens, etc) properly.

I have one card (ATI X1550) that displays the low res modes properly, and two others (ATI HD3200, Nvidia 9500GT) that do not. All cards display 1920x1080 without a problem with open source drivers, hit and miss with the proprietary drivers (i.e. fglrx). I'm running Ubuntu linux by the way.

Has anyone run into this? Is this an issue with the video card(s) not handling the display's EDID properly? I doubt that it's a driver or OS-related issue, because it's a problem even with display of the BIOS text and POST messages.


I'm concerned by some EDID and modeline behavior that seems different from the standard "bugged" behavior that has been talked about here a great deal... this involves what appears to be a lack of reported vertical refresh from EDID. I notice in the logs that the higher resolutions indicate "0" hz vertical refresh. Odd that the 1920x1080 mode works fine though... very curious.


Here are the relevant sections of my Xorg.0.log using the ATI HD3200, including the interesting bits of the EDID log marked in red:
(--) PCI:*(0@1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics rev 0, Mem @ 0xd0000000/0, 0xf9ef0000/0, 0xf9d00000/0, I/O @ 0x0000c000/0

...

(II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(II) RADEON(0): ATOM BIOS detected
(II) RADEON(0): ATOM BIOS Rom:
SubsystemVendorID: 0x1002 SubsystemID: 0x1002
IOBaseAddress: 0xc000
Filename: K10DX10DP_D_
BIOS Bootup Message:
ASROCK RS780 VBIOS 082

...

(II) RADEON(0): Output DVI-0 has no monitor section
(II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DVI-0" initialized.
(II) RADEON(0): Port0:
Monitor -- AUTO
Connector -- VGA
DAC Type -- Primary
TMDS Type -- None
DDC Type -- 0x7e40
(II) RADEON(0): Port1:
Monitor -- AUTO
Connector -- DVI-D
DAC Type -- None
TMDS Type -- LVTMA
DDC Type -- 0x7e50
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA-0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA-0:ddc2" removed.
(II) RADEON(0): Output: VGA-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
Dac detection success
finished output detect: 0
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DVI-0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) RADEON(0): Output: DVI-0, Detected Monitor Type: 3
(II) RADEON(0): Panel infos found from DDC detailed: 1920x1080

...

(II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on output: DVI-0 ----------------------

(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: WDE Model: 14fa Serial#: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Year: 2007 Week: 16
(II) RADEON(0): EDID Version: 1.3
(II) RADEON(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.300 V
(II) RADEON(0): Sync: Separate
(II) RADEON(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 82 vert.: 46
(II) RADEON(0): Gamma: 2.20
(II) RADEON(0): DPMS capabilities: Off; RGB/Color Display
(II) RADEON(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
(II) RADEON(0): redX: 0.640 redY: 0.331 greenX: 0.290 greenY: 0.600
(II) RADEON(0): blueX: 0.149 blueY: 0.059 whiteX: 0.280 whiteY: 0.291
(II) RADEON(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): 720x400@70Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 640x480@60Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 800x600@60Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 1024x768@60Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 720 refresh: 60 vid: 49281
(II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897
(II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1280 vsize 800 refresh: 60 vid: 129
(II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) RADEON(0): clock: 148.5 MHz Image Size: 708 x 398 mm
(II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1920 h_sync: 2008 h_sync_end 2052 h_blank_end 2200 h_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): v_active: 1080 v_sync: 1084 v_sync_end 1089 v_blanking: 1125 v_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 58 V max: 72 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 68 kHz, PixClock max 150 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: Westinghouse
(II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: LVM-37w3se
(II) RADEON(0): EDID (in hex):
(II) RADEON(0): 00ffffffffffff005c85fa1400000000
(II) RADEON(0): 1011010308522e782af64ea3544a9926
(II) RADEON(0): 0f474aa1080081c08180810001010101
(II) RADEON(0): 010101010101023a801871382d40582c
(II) RADEON(0): 4500c48e2100001e000000fd003a481e
(II) RADEON(0): 440f000a202020202020000000fc0057
(II) RADEON(0): 657374696e67686f75736520000000fc
(II) RADEON(0): 004c564d2d3337773373650a20200001
finished output detect: 1

...

(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA-0:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(II) RADEON(0): I2C device "VGA-0:ddc2" removed.
(II) RADEON(0): Output: VGA-0, Detected Monitor Type: 0
Dac detection success
(II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "WDE", prod id 5370
(II) RADEON(0): Using EDID range info for horizontal sync
(II) RADEON(0): Using EDID range info for vertical refresh
(II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x720"x60.0 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -hsync +vsync (44.8 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x60.0 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -hsync +vsync (63.6 kHz)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x800"x60.0 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -hsync +vsync (49.7 kHz)
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Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
 
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Can anyone help? Has anyone ever had an issue with the LVM-37w3se not displaying basic VGA output, i.e. BIOS POST screens?
 
Can anyone help with this? Do I have an EDID problem? Is it normal for the 1920x1080 resolution to report 0 hz refresh?
 
i vaguely remember something about the vga not showing the bios. Have you tried using and vga to dvi adaptor and seeing if the bios show when using the dvi input?
 
Ender1183 said:
i vaguely remember something about the vga not showing the bios. Have you tried using and vga to dvi adaptor and seeing if the bios show when using the dvi input?
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I'm using DVI to DVI at the moment, so that wouldn't be it. I haven't tried it connecting to the VGA port, actually... I will try that and see if the behavior is different. It may shed some light on this.
 
Blahman said:
What exactly does the screen do? Completely black out?
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Yep, completely blacks out. It detects a signal but displays nothing.


I tested it with VGA... it WORKS with VGA! No problems, displays text output just fine. This problem is only on the DVI connection. I don't get it.
 
I've tried two. It works flawlessly at 1920x1080, have you seen one that would work at high pixel clock rates but not at low ones? I can try another cable that I have (a high end one) if you think that would make a difference. Thanks for your help, by the way!
 
Tested extensively with VGA. EDID log is identical in terms of modelines. Text display works perfectly through boot, and starts X as normal. Everything seems fine until I try to drop back to console from X, using Ctrl-Alt-F1. When I do that, it has the same behavior as the DVI console view... no display.

I have a query in with the ASRock support group (mobo manufacturer) to see if it's something weird with the video bios.

I'm still concerned by the fact that EDID is reporting 0.0 hz refresh on most of the modes. Is this normal for an LVM-37w3se?
 
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