Re: Re: Geode driver question

I'm using the one from the XFree86 cvs server, which appears to have had a
lot of work done to it recently by Alan Hourihane and seems to work quite
well except for the issues that I've been having with lower resolutions
displays.

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nat Ersoz" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Xpert]Re: Geode driver question


> Another Geode driver question:
>
> Is there an XFree86 maintained geode driver, or is the only driver the
> one from the National site?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nat
>
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:38, Ed Anuff wrote:
> > I think that I found the problem.  The minimun clock frequency in line
844
> > of geode_driver.c is too high to allow the lower resolutions to be
accepted:
> >
> > static ClockRange GeodeClockRange = { NULL, 25175, 135000, 0, FALSE,
TRUE,
> > 1, 1, 0 };
> >
> > Changing the minimum clock frequency to 1 solves the problem:
> >
> > static ClockRange GeodeClockRange = { NULL, 1, 135000, 0, FALSE, TRUE,
1, 1,
> > 0 };
> >
> > Clearly, this is not a valid lower boundery, but it solves the problem,
and
> > it looks like other drivers are taking the same approach of setting a
> > minimum of 0 or 1.
> >
> > Also, the HorizSync range in XF86Config will need to allow a lower
minimum
> > value so something like 10-60 will be necessary.
> >
> > Hope this helps others,
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ed Anuff" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 10:47 PM
> > Subject: Geode driver question
> >
> >
> > > I see from looking at the source that the new Geode driver supports
> > several
> > > modes such as 320x240 and 512x384 that I would like to make use of.
> > > Unfortunately, I've been unable to create a modeline that works with
them.
> > > Does anyone have the set of modelines that match the resolutions
supported
> > > by the new driver?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ed
> > >
> >
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