should I make a ticket with the patch? I am a bit hesitant because I am fairly sure it would break whatever there is out there with this chipset and a genuine 1280x800 screen that gets an index of 7 in ViaPanelGetNativeModeFromScratchPad
Alan. Xavier Bachelot wrote: > 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
