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

[Bas Wijnen]

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. ;-)

> >> 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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