radeon/r128 patches

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 23 00:35:32 PST 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 14:35 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:

> > My eyes are actually better off at 1280x1024 anyway, and the scale is
> > more comparable with 1152x768 on the LCD anyway so it is no biggy. It
> > could just be the monitor (I will see if it repeats with my Sony E500 at
> > work).
> 
> It may be a bandwidth issue.  the mobility r128 perhaps can't quite
> drive the display at that resolution or maybe the vga port hardware
> wasn't designed to handle it.  Can MacOS handle it?

Either that, or it is a problem with the setting of the external TMDS
transmitter...

If you set MacOS to that mode, so that the firmware does initialize the
display to the highest resolution at boot, do you still get the noise ?

Ben.





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