[Bug 28073] ati radeon driver does not autodetect displaysize on Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28073

--- Comment #6 from Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com> 2010-05-12 16:19:27 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> > Older radeons rarely had edids for the LVDS panel, the vbios lvds
> > table only has the panel modeline, not the physical size.
> 
> The old radeon driver (back in the xfree86 days) did know that my
> laptop’s screen was 12”×9”.  I originally added --dpi 133 to my X
> startup scripts only because the integer conversions between inch
> (for dpi) and mm (for dimensions) led to rounding errors.

The driver did not even have support for reading edids from LCD panels at that
time so it must have been some different behaviour in the xserver rather than
the driver.

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