Bug#573849: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Be verbose about discarding modes

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bas Wijnen <wijnen at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:46:15PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> > I didn't test, but looking at the source I find it hard to believe that
>> > there will be more information than "mode clock too high".  After all,
>> > the rejecting code (which I quoted above) doesn't provide any more
>> > information than that.
>>
>> yeah, that's what it will tell you, but I that's all you should need.
>
> It now says "The maximum I can handle is 170 MHz, this mode is 162 MHz,
> I can't handle this one because the clock is too high".  It doesn't make
> sense. ;-)

Well, the monitor says it can handle a max of 170 Mhz, but in this
case, the gpu cannot.  It can be a bit confusing.

Alex

>
>> >> You can also manually specify modelines in your xorg.conf or at run
>> >> time using xrandr to override what the driver/xserver's selections.
>>
>> It will work.  The point of manual modelines is that you can use them
>> to override what the driver/xserver decides or to add modes that may
>> not be in your monitor's edid.  If you specify one, then presumably
>> you know what you are doing.
>
> Ok, that sounds good.
>
> Thanks,
> Bas
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