Dear Greg,
Am Samstag, den 20.12.2008, 20:38 +0000 schrieb Greg Stark: > > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Greg Stark <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running into this intel driver limit on a i945GM card: > > xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1280x1824 (desired size > 1920x1824) > > I've recompiled from source from > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel > but it seems at > least the master branch still has this problem. Are there > plans to work around > this problem? Is there a branch containing fixes for it? > > I know it's possible because in Windows this card happily > drives this monitor > at 1920x1200 for a total desktop size of 3200x1200. > > > I'm not sure if this is related but I see the following code in > i830_driver.c: > > /* See i830_exa.c comments for why we limit the framebuffer size > like this. > */ > if (IS_I965G(pI830)) { > max_width = 8192; > max_height = 8192; > } else { > max_width = 2048; > max_height = 2048; > } > xf86CrtcSetSizeRange (pScrn, 320, 200, max_width, max_height); > > There is no such related comments in i830_exa.c as the comment here > claims. (In fact there are hardly any comments in i830_exa.c at all). > Is this code just obsolete? What will happen if I just put a more > reasonable set of values here? I heard, there are some technical limitations to it in the implementation. I think [1] is the way to go. (Look for Virtual.) Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#head-5002c433e6ebf8a0a8fae6ae545cc32789bdae3f
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