Interlaced VGA capability possibly lost between v4.2.0 and v4.3.0

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> I have a Radeon 9000 producing interlaced 720x576 successfully
> on one system but not another. Admittedly they are different Linux
> distrobitions, so the difference could potentially be anywhere,
> but the Xorg looks - to my untrained eye - to suggest that the
> problem is with xorg or the radeon driver. Is there any chance that
> a change between v4.2.0 and v4.3.0 could have lost the capability
> for interlaced output?
>
> Attached are the conf files and logs. It would be grate if
> someone wouldn't mind having a quick look. If it's likely
> that it is a difference in the radeon driver, I could have a go
> at using the older version on both systems.

At some point during the xrandr 1.2 transition in the radeon driver,
certain interlaced configurations broke.  This should be fixed now in
ati git master.

Alex