How to set mode to 1080p24 for HDTV

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Frederik Vogelsang
<frederik.vogelsang at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2011/10/31 Andy Furniss <andyqos at ukfsn.org>:
>> Look in Xorg.0.log the modes may be listed.
> Nope. Only when using fglrx the modes are listed, with the free radeon
> driver they are not. I never thought a mature video driver like
> "radeon" would ignore the CEA EDID.

It's not driver specific.  The core drm EDID parsing code doesn't
handle it yet so it affects every open source driver using kms.  It
shouldn't be too hard to implement.  See drm_edid.c in the kernel.

Alex