kms howto - is there one?

[Felix Miata]

On 2010/03/22 09:15 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:07 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:

>> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

>> > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:21 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> > > But the monitor definition in Mandriva is sufficient by providing HorizSync
>> > > and VertRefresh ranges exclusively (same as in F13 with mga). The only
>> > > modelines I've ever seen drakx11 insert are the same two old 768x576 at 79 &
>> > > 768x576 at 100 it did back when the whole distro fit on one CD.

>> > This is making my brain leak out of my ears, but if I have it right, the
>> > fundamental issue under all of this verbiage is that you find that on
>> > F13, just setting a correct horizsync is not enough to make all the
>> > modes that fit in that horizsync range available, you also have to
>> > provide modelines, right?

>> > Well, it's up to ajax whether that's desired behaviour or a bug. ajax,
>> > what say you?

>> For outputs where we don't find EDID, that's a bug.

> I believe the original Xorg.0.log output indicates there was no EDID
> data.

>> For outputs where we do find EDID, it's... subtle.  I suppose at that
>> point you've asked for range-based validation, regardless of whether the
>> monitor really is multisync in the CRT sense, so we may as well generate
>> modes for you.  So probably a bug there too.

> Thanks. :) So, Felix, can you please file a bug against
> xorg-x11-drv-intel and give me / Adam the URL? Thanks.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576026 filed against xorg-x11-drv
as it applies also at least to radeon as well as intel.
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