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Bug#240581: Patch to add option for ATI Radeon to force the use of lower dotclocks



reassign xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] support "ForceMinDotClock" option
tag 240581 + upstream fixed-upstream
thanks

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:22:08AM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> I have found that my Radeon card as well as many others, says that it can
> work from 20Mhz to 400Mhz, this would mean that it is not capable of
> producing TV frequencies, which it is, I have found that this problem had
> been reported on xfree86 bugtracking system as bug #831 and then added to
> their cvs with some changes.
> 
> I have made the apropiate changes to the patch so that it could be applied
> to our sources and have tested it, it works perfectly and is a clean patch,
> I think that it would be good if you could apply it in a future version of
> the packages.
> 
> Maybe it would also be good to upgrade Radeon's driver a little bit,
> following the logs on the cvs there have been many enhancements as well as
> bugfixes, new options, ...
> 
> Anyway, here are the patches, first the ones I got from the xfree86 cvs:
[...]
> --- xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon.man	2003/10/07 22:47:12	1.4
> +++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon.man	2003/10/31 23:03:17	1.5
[...]
> --- xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_driver.c	2003/10/30 17:36:58	1.110
> +++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_driver.c	2003/10/31 23:03:17	1.111

Good, these precede the mass-relicensing.

> And now the patch I made from those, changing them so that they could apply
> cleanly to our sources:
[...]
> Hope you like it.
> 
> Thanks for this great packages guys, keep up that good work.

Thank you very much for preparing this patch.

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