Input Signal Out of Range(Specific to Full-Screen Apps powered by PYTHON)

Can you reproduce the problem (with full screen applications) if you disable Compiz?

The answer is yes. This issue is program specific. Disabling compiz(which I did) does not effect the full-screen program, as it attempts to directly modify monitor parameters. Also, as for the example program, I was able to check some sites and get a fretsonfire.ini file with a [video] section and place the file in terlmann/.fretsonfire/fretsonfire.ini . With full-screen disabled , the program works fine. This problem effected multiple programs though.

It might be related to the pygame library. What other programs are affected by the problem?

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This bug is to remain open until solved, as this effects all ubuntu installations and varients. Other programs currently affected include lbreakout and etracer. The likelyness of this being python specific is extremely high.
I will add pygame to the list of effected programs.

I've experienced this problem too.

Programs using pylib work fine in a window, but in full-screen mode they lock up the screen with an "signal input out of range" (sic!). The mode they're being set to is 800x600. The screen becomes useless - the only way I can get the display back is by switching to tty1 and killing the X server.

mikevdg@kaz:~$ X -version

X.Org X Server 1.6.0
Release Date: 2009-2-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-23-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux kaz 2.6.28-15-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9 10:49:34 UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 09 April 2009 02:10:02AM
xorg-server 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14 (<email address hidden>)
 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 to make sure that you have the latest version.

libsdl1.2debian-alsa is installed. It appears to be a libsdl problem.

One fix is to hack each pygame application. Find the line saying "pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600), FULLSCREEN) and remove the FULLSCREEN bit. This prevents any accidental lock-ups.

Ideally, the X server would refuse to use a setting that doesn't work with the monitor, but the xorg.conf file is now pretty sparse.