[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: autodetection of the modelines (EDID ?)



On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:55, Yves Combe wrote:
> 
> I am looking for a détection of the modelines in debian. (for the liveCD i 
> work on.)
> 
> the modelines generated by Xautocfg is out of sync on my display. I found the 
> EDID file in the openfirmware device-tree, is there a program to parse it in 
> debian ? is there another solution?

Both the radeon and nv drivers in current XFree86 CVS try to handle this
on their own. Using those, putting

	Modes	"<console resolution>"

in the XF86Config-4 Display subsection might work in most cases.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



Reply to: