On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Martin Langhoff >> <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> if your hw supports a scaler, just set the smaller mode and have it >>>> scale up to the larger screen mode. If not, you'll have to mess with >>>> the h/v border widths in the modeline to generate a center mode. >>> >>> Hmmm. Interesting. Does it work on LCDs? How do I calculate that? >>> >>> Current modeline is (from Xorg.0.log) >>> >>> 1200x900 x50.6 57.27 1200 1208 1216 1240 900 905 908 912 -hsync -vsync >>> >> >> Something like: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c;h=31df55f0a0a7950a0e59ebce556fc30cde35b891;hb=refs/heads/drm-next#l276 > > Not working at all for me unfortunately. Maybe I am flunking the > modeline math, but I think that this specific driver (openchrome) has > special hardcoded magic for our display. > > That modeline is what Xorg reports when it autodetects the modeline -- > using the exact same modeline via explicit declaration kills the > display. So this driver ain't a friend of modeline tweaking. >
The modeline used by the hardware may not be what's reported to X. You'll have to check the source to see how the driver handles it. Alex > Do we have a VirtualAndIMeanIt stanza? > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
