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

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>  > Committed to X.org git.
>  >
>  > OLPC and projects with a TFT:  please test ASAP and report any issue
>  > that might have crept in.
>  >
>  > If nobody reports anything major by the end of this week, this will be
>  > pushed (along with the final version of Bernie's libpciaccess port) as
>  > xf86-video-amd 2.7.7.7 and released with X.org 7.4 (server core 1.5).
>  >
>
>  Tried with a combination of this widemode patch and Bart's 3 patches for
>  X86EMU on the TK-3550 with Phoenix AwardBIOS on Fedora 8's
>  xorg-server-1.3.0.0 with my Dell 1680x1050 TFT screen.
>
>  widemode patch alone did not seem to help.  The system still deadlocks
>  completely when I tried to run X with autoconfiguration (no xorg.conf)
>  which chooses vesa.

This is expected. You need a fully patched server with all 3 patches.
Going about this piecemeal is the wrong approach.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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