How to set mode to 1080p24 for HDTV

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Andy Furniss <andyqos at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> James Cloos wrote:
>>
>> I grabbed your edid from the hex dump in the log and passed it through
>> the update to edit-decode I've been hacking on.  It reports:
>
> Nice, this is far more readable.
>
> I don't know what's right or wrong, but can see a couple of discrepancies
>  between this and what is printed in my xorg log.
>
> Modeline "1440x288"x0.0 and Modeline "1440x240"x0.0 are not shown in CEA. I
> don't think I've ever tested these - should get time tonight.
>
> The interlaced modes
>
>> Detailed mode: Clock 74.250 MHz, 698 mm x 392 mm
>>                1920 2448 2492 2640 hborder 0
>>                 540  542  547  562 vborder 0
>>                +hsync +vsync interlaced
>> Detailed mode: Clock 74.250 MHz, 698 mm x 392 mm
>>                1920 2008 2052 2200 hborder 0
>>                 540  542  547  562 vborder 0
>>                +hsync +vsync interlaced
>
> show half height, in the log and xrandr they are printed as full height.
>

Interlaced HDTV modes tend to treat the height field as field height
rather than frame height.

Alex