Alan Bell wrote: > this is a repost of something I posted a while back, but I am again > interested in an answer to get it working correctly out of the box > with Ubuntu Jaunty. > > I have been working on getting Ubuntu Jaunty to work on the Elonex > webbook laptop, by default the LCD panel does not work at all but the > external VGA port is operational at 1024x768 (which is the native > resolution of the monitor I attached). I compiled the latest from > trunk and installed that, still didn't work, but with with a lot of > help from schlobinux on IRC I did eventually get it working, it > required a small fix to let the driver know that a panel was there > http://www.openchrome.org/trac/changeset/597/trunk and a modeline in > the xorg.conf to let it know about the 1024x600 resolution of the > panel This left it with a rather odd stretched screen on the panel, > it was running at 1024x600 but this was stretched such that the top > left 820x450 filled the panel. A bit of inspection of Xorg.0.log > revealed that it thought the native panel size was 1280x800 so what > it was really doing was stretching the 1024x600 resolution out to fit > a 1280x800 panel then only displaying 1024x600 of that. The reason it > thought the native size was 1280x800 was because > ViaPanelGetNativeModeFromScratchPad in via_panel.c was getting an > index of 7, which corresponds to 1280x800 in the array at the top of > via_panel.c I hacked line 49 of via_panel.c to read {1024, 600}, and > recompiled. It then worked perfectly. What is a more sensible way to > get this to work? clearly my hack would break something else which > actually does have a 1280x800 panel.
I see 2 other possibilities : - The value you get from the scratch register is wrong. - The correspondance table is wrong and your change is actually fixing the table. > Is there somewhere I can put the 1024x600 modeline so that my > xorg.conf can go back to it's almost totally empty state? > > Alan. > Can you post a patch against trunk of your modification, please ? Regards, Xavier _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
