Ripe for adding new modelines?

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/18/05, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> Patrick McFarland wrote:
> 
> >On Friday 12 August 2005 04:40 am, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Erm, does the common code in the meantime take care of this? Did I miss
> >>something? So far, I know only of the SiS and radeon drivers to convert
> >>ddc timings to modelines internally...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Is it me, or does this sound like something that should be made a generic
> >driver feature? (WWAAAARGH! I'm not volunteering!!!)
> >
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> Well, I can stare at it some....  But the last time I worked on X
> drivers it was X11R3, and it was on a VAXstation-II... that should
> tell you how long ago it was.
> 
> If someone can walk me through what needs to be done, I can
> see about writing the code (or restructuring it, if it is already
> present in the SiS drivers and just needs to be generalized) and
> testing it.
> 
> BTW:  Does anyone have access to standard timing modes for
> the various TV standard modes (i.e. 1280x720p, etc) for HD,
> ATSC, PAL/SECAM, NSTC-M and -J, etc.
> 

this ought to get you started:
http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video_card_configuration.html

Alex

> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip
> 
>