Interlace mode refused

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Derek <monkey at monkeynet.ca> wrote:
> Paul Gardiner <lists at ...> writes:
>>
>> For some time, I've been using an X1250 and the radeon driver to drive
>> a TV via a VGA => SCART circuit. For some reason, with my latest
>> installation my mode line is refused with the message "interlace mode
>> not supported". I at first assumed this meant that interlace support
>> had been dropped from the radeon driver, but then I built v 6.12.4
>> which was one I'd previously used with success. So I'm guessing
>> it is some other part of xorg, or a config difference.
>
> Hello Paul,
>
> I was wondering if you ever got this issue sorted out? I am currently having the
> same issue. I have tried several different items to get this sorted out
> including trying to get the Radeon driver to not use the EDID information, but
> nothing has yet worked. If you got this working I would appreciate knowing what
> you did to accomplish this.

Should be fixed with this patch for kms:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-November/005901.html

Alex