[Xorg-driver-geode] looking at wide mode support for GeodeLX (continued)

[Jordan Crouse]

On 13/02/08 13:40 -0500, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> * Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> [080213 13:14]:
> > On 13/02/08 11:48 -0500, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> > > I have not yet reviewed the patch.  I just applied it and ran it on top
> > > of gutsy w/ 2.6.6.7 and my CPUID patch in xorg.
> > > 
> > > Running X with no modes set in the xorg.conf puts my monitor into
> > > 1280x1024.  All the other modes are rejected, and in the log I see
> > > things like:
> > 
> > Humm - thats not good.  Can you confirm that the DDC modes are still
> > sneaking into the vg_get_display_mode_index() block?  I guess maybe
> > their flags aren't as wel defined as we thought they were?
> 
> DDC reports...
> 
> And the dump below is a list of all the scrp->monitor->Modes (aka
> availModes) elements sent to xf86ValidateModes() done in link-list
> order.  As you can see they all have "DRIVER" set.
> 
> 1920x1200 	00000048	DRIVER + PREFERRED

Presumably then, this would be the mode that X would ask for if nothing
else was specified.  Why then 1280x1024, and then the DEFAULT one and
not the one flagged with driver?  There is strangness here that needs to
be debugged.

Jordan

-- 
Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.