[Xorg-driver-geode] Switch from nsc to geode driver

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Silvan
Calarco<silvan.calarco at mambasoft.it> wrote:
> In data martedì 30 giugno 2009 16:07:00, Harmuth, Florian ha scritto:
>> hello all,
>> at the moment i try to update my xorg version. I have attached an 19" tft
>> with sxga resolution. If i try to set the resolution to 1280x1024 with
>> xrandr it returns that the maximal resolution is 1028x1028. Where i can
>> change this "maximal" resolution? With my old xorg version (and the
>> reagrding nsc driver) i can set my "normal" resolution.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> flo
>
> Hello,
> I had the same problem when trying to add support for 1280x1024 and 1680x1050
> modes on a custom board.
> The attached patch manages to get X to start with the startup mode set by bios
> (well not exactly, if you set 1600x1200 in bios it starts in 1680x1050 mode
> with this patch).
> No mode switching is supported because I've simply disabled all default modes
> to make the bios mode the prefferred one.
> The code scaling does not work with widths > 1024, and I think this is one
> reason why DDC probe is disabled for panels. The workaround of setting in the
> bios the video output to CRT instead of TFT/LVDS cannot be applied for me.
> This is of course not a mainstream patch (well the part that gives names to
> legacy modes could be) but does what I needed and maybe it may help.
>
> Regards,
> Silvan

Please note the xf86-video-geode only has support for GX2 and LX hardware.

Meanwhile, xf86-video-nsc has outdated support for GX2 and complete
support for GX1 and SC.

-- 
Martin-Éric