Ripe for adding new modelines?

[Philip Prindeville]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>> I was just looking at:
>>
>> Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/extramodes
>>
>> and noticed it's been relatively unchanging the last 2-3 years...
>>
>> I also noticed that there are a lot of laptop and LCD monitor modes
>> (such as 1680x1050 or 1920x1200) which aren't VESA norms but
>> have become defacto standards.
>
>
> We've been shipping with these additions to our extramodes in
> Xorg on Solaris to support Sun monitors not covered by the existing
> modelines:
>
> # 1920x1080 @ 60Hz (Sun) hsync: 66.975kHz
> Modeline "1920x1080" 137.7 1920 1928 1992 2056 1080 1082 1086 1112 
> +hsync +vsync
>
> # 1920x1200 @ 60Hz (Sun 24.1" LCD) hsync: 73.54 kHz
> ModeLine "1920x1200" 151.200 1920 1928 1992 2056 1200 1202 1206 1234 
> +HSync +VSync
>
> # 1920x1200 @ 70.316Hz (Sun 24" CRT) hsync: 87.192 kHz
> ModeLine "1920x1200" 219.375 1920 1944 2172 2516 1200 1201 1204 1240 
> -HSync -VSync
>
> I haven't put these into the upstream CVS mainly because I haven't gotten
> around to asking anyone else if these modelines are a good idea for 
> general
> distribution or not.   (I don't think they're entirely Sun specific - for
> instance, our 24.1" LCD is based on the same screen from Samsung as 
> Dell's,
> so I would think the same modelines apply to both, but I haven't tested.)
>
>     -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>      Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


Actually, those don't look like standard timings to me.

The 1920x1080i should be 60Hz, for instance.

I drive my Dell 2405FPW with the EDID suggested timing of:

ModeLine     "1920x1200 at 60" 154.0 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235

The timing is more a function of the controller that they put into
the monitor than the actual LCD screen itself.

-Philip