Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-15 Thread emmanuel ALLAUD
--- emmanuel ALLAUD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hi, > I read your mails on xfree-devel about your wiki > page. > I actually had also setup one via the xwin site. The > link is : http://xwin.org:9673/xwin/XJANITOR > There are a lot of stuff about compiling XFree and > also about debugging X

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-15 Thread emmanuel ALLAUD
Hi, I read your mails on xfree-devel about your wiki page. I actually had also setup one via the xwin site. The link is : http://xwin.org:9673/xwin/XJANITOR There are a lot of stuff about compiling XFree and also about debugging X (using xscope, valgrind for the mem leaks and other oddities...)

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-09 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:59:07PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: >Thomas Winischhofer writes: > > > > So, why is 1024x600 sorted out on this machine then? (I ask because SiS > > BIOSes sometimes list wrong modes when probing, and refer to wrong > > internal modes numbers. I had hoped that Intel folk

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-09 Thread Alessandro Temil
Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Alessandro Temil wrote: Egbert Eich wrote: > > David > Here you are, i attached both i810 and vesa driver XFree86.0.log. > (by the way, i'm new of this mailing list, if it doesn't allow messages > with attachments i'll repost them inlined asap.) > > This moring i

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-09 Thread Egbert Eich
Thomas Winischhofer writes: > > So, why is 1024x600 sorted out on this machine then? (I ask because SiS > BIOSes sometimes list wrong modes when probing, and refer to wrong > internal modes numbers. I had hoped that Intel folks just forgot to > change their probe function for this very mac

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-08 Thread Kendall Bennett
Alessandro Temil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Rewrite the i810 driver so it bypasses the BIOS like the Windows > > driver does. I'm not aware whether Intel would provide the required > > documentation to the the open source community. > > This was the thing i'm inquiring on. Intel seemed to

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Alessandro Temil wrote: Egbert Eich wrote: > > David > Here you are, i attached both i810 and vesa driver XFree86.0.log. > (by the way, i'm new of this mailing list, if it doesn't allow messages > with attachments i'll repost them inlined asap.) > > This moring i wrote to intel asking for t

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Egbert Eich wrote: Thomas Winischhofer writes: > > It is possible that the BIOS actually knows the mode, but has no VESA > number for it. I have seen this at least on SiS hardware: SiS BIOSes > maintain two mode number lists, one with internal mode numbers, one for > VESA mode numbers. As

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-08 Thread Alessandro Temil
Egbert Eich wrote: > > David > Here you are, i attached both i810 and vesa driver XFree86.0.log. > (by the way, i'm new of this mailing list, if it doesn't allow messages > with attachments i'll repost them inlined asap.) > > This moring i wrote to intel asking for the specifications, i ho

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-08 Thread Egbert Eich
Alessandro Temil writes: > >>Hoewever, I am absolutely astonished that the graphics BIOS on a 1400x1050 > >>panel does not know how to set a 1400x1050 mode. That means, for example, > >>that the kernel console driver could never set a mode that fills the panel. > >> > >>Does the i810 driver

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-08 Thread Egbert Eich
Thomas Winischhofer writes: > > It is possible that the BIOS actually knows the mode, but has no VESA > number for it. I have seen this at least on SiS hardware: SiS BIOSes > maintain two mode number lists, one with internal mode numbers, one for > VESA mode numbers. As the i810 BIOS, it h

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-08 Thread Egbert Eich
Tim Roberts writes: > On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: > > >Christian Zietz wrote: > >> > >> The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only read the available > >> resolutions from the BIOS but also uses the BIOS to set the video mode. > >> So if the BIOS

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Alessandro Temil wrote: Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Alessandro Temil wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:25:35AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: Christian Zietz wrote: The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-06 Thread Alessandro Temil
Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Alessandro Temil wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:25:35AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: Christian Zietz wrote: The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only read the available resol

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Alessandro Temil wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:25:35AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: Christian Zietz wrote: The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only read the available resolutions from the BIOS but als

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:25:35AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: >On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: > >>Christian Zietz wrote: >>> >>> The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only read the available >>> resolutions from the BIOS but also uses the BIOS to set the vide

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Tim Roberts
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: >Christian Zietz wrote: >> >> The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only read the available >> resolutions from the BIOS but also uses the BIOS to set the video mode. >> So if the BIOS doesn't know of 1400x1050, it won't set i

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Alessandro Temil
Christian Zietz wrote: Hi, Alessandro Temil schrieb: I'm a linux Xfree86 user, and my laptop has an LCD screen with 1400x1050 native resolution. the internal video chipset is an intel 855GM. After some hours of trying i figured out there's no way of getting that resolution under XFree86, due

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Christian Zietz
Hi, Alessandro Temil schrieb: > I'm a linux Xfree86 user, and my laptop has an LCD screen with > 1400x1050 native resolution. the internal video chipset is an intel > 855GM. After some hours of trying i figured out there's no way of > getting that resolution under XFree86, due to the fac

i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Alessandro Temil
Hi everybody I'm a linux Xfree86 user, and my laptop has an LCD screen with 1400x1050 native resolution. the internal video chipset is an intel 855GM. After some hours of trying i figured out there's no way of getting that resolution under XFree86, due to the fact that the current i810 driver