On Monday 06 April 2009 12:52:16 Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:11:25 -0400 > Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > There are a number of small form factor desktop systems with Intel > > mobile graphics chips that lie and say they have an LVDS. With kernel > > mode-setting, this becomes a problem, and makes native resolution > > boot go haywire -- for example, my Dell Studio Hybrid, hooked to a > > 1920x1080 display claims to have a 1024x768 LVDS, and the resulting > > graphical boot on the 1920x1080 display uses only the top left > > 1024x768, and auto-configured X will end up only 1024x768 as well. > > With this change, graphical boot and X both do 1920x1080 as expected. > > > > Note that we're simply embracing and extending the early bail-out code > > in place for the Mac Mini here. The xorg intel driver uses pci > > subsystem device and vendor id for matching, while we're using dmi > > lookups here. The MSI addition is courtesy of and tested by Bill > > Nottingham. > > > > One minor issue... Current Fedora rawhide, video playback using Xv > > makes X go off into the weeds with this patch added, but that's a bug > > elsewhere, still confident this patch DTRT. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> > > Tested-by: Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> > > The 2D driver has a similar set of quirks, but since we started that > list we've found that the VBIOS should contain a pretty reliable table > indicating which outputs are available, including LVDS. I think if we > can figure out how to parse it reliably (accounting for VBIOS > versioning and structure size changes) we shouldn't need this patch. > If we can't get that done in time for 2.6.30 though I'm all for > including this.
Sounds like a plan to me. Either way, would this patch still make sense for submission to the 2.6.29.x stable series? I've already tacked it onto the Fedora 2.6.29 kernel builds, fwiw. -- Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
