Re: 4.5.99.902 Problem with i810 EDID not honoured for 1360x768@60

David Dawes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:17:11AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
>David,
>
>Can you tell me if this is supposed to work? If not why not?

It is supposed to work.  The i810 driver (for >= i830) handles modes
differently than most drivers, and I don't know if the problem lies there
or not.

What are the results of running:

  XFree86 -autoconfig -screen 'Builtin Default vesa Screen 0'

David

>
>The "edit the config" option is not reasonable as I want to install
>against a large number of monitors and have X11 use the preferred mode
>with admin intervention.
>
>Barry
>
>
>Barry Scott wrote:
>>Alan suggested:
>>
>>>Try adding the 1360x768 modeline explicitly to the config file.
>>
>>Isn't the point of the EDID data that I do not have to do custom config
>>for every monitor?
>>
>>Why doesn't the i810 + XFree86 code set up the mode correctly?
>>
>>Barry
>>p.s. Sorry for the delay replying, I'm very busy at the moment.
>>
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