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

On Mon, 8 May 2006, David Dawes wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:07:49PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
>> David Dawes wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:17:11AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
>>>> 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'

>> xrandr says its running at 1360x768@60Hz but the screen claims its
>> running at 1024x768.
>> Which is progress as X appears to be doing the right thing. I don't
>> trust the Hitachi panel to
>> be working at 1360x768 as the Windows Nvidia drivers get the same result
>> as the X i810,
>> e.g. choose 1360x768 and panel says 1024x768.

> Does it visually look like 1360x768?

For purposes such as these, I set my background using ...

 	xsetroot -mod 15 15 -bg black -fg rgb:00/9F/9F

... and start counting.

Marc.

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