Re: Xv on external monitor with neomagic

Diego SANTA CRUZ writes:
 > Hi there,
 > 
 > I've been using the new Xv code in the neomagic driver and it has been
 > working great, as long as I start XFree on the LCD panel. When I start
 > XFree on the external monitor (which I do most of the time) xv does not
 > work, I get just a black video with a blue line on the left.
 > 
 > This was already reported by Frank Fiene back in April and Egbert Eich
 > pointed out that the problem is that the h and v timings need to be
 > derived from the modeline (see
 > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/neomagic/2002-April/001021.html).
 > 
 > Is there any fix that implements this available somewhere? I tried
 > looking in the neo_video.[ch] files but I could not figure out where
 > does this come into play, although I must admit that this is the first
 > time that I take a look at XFree86 code and that I have no idea about
 > video driver programming, so I was kind of lost :-)
 > 
 > I would really appreciate any help in making the necessary fixes so that
 > it becomes possible to use Xv on external monitors.
 > 

The fixes for this should be in CVS already.
If there are pieces missing I will commit them to CVS
shortly.

Egbert.