On Friday 26 November 2004 07:09, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > Apart from the fact this the nv implementation is bad as it relys on the > BIOS for the panel size, this particular panel's DDC data is broken. It > advertizes 1024x768 as the preferred mode while being capable of > 1600x1200. I very much assume the BIOS simply evaluates the DDC data in > order to find out about the panel size. [Side note: This is the way many > other BIOSes do it as well. This method fails miserably for plasma > panels that can scale down as well.] > > If you (or the user that owns this panel) is capable of compiling X from > source, you could try out patching nv_setup.c to hard-code > pNv->fpWidth/pNv->fpHeight to 1600x1200 and see what happens.
Follow-up: This was tried, but produced a green screen. Writing 1600-1 and 1200-1 to the registers in question resulted in the monitor failing to sync. The BIOS is of no help since the highest mode id that is supported is 800x600. Tony _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
