test intel git repo, with modesetting

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 16:03:12 PDT 2006


> >>Up 'till now we've been using 19" CRTs which work ok.  But now everyone
> >>is nagging me to get some nice 21" LCDs.
> >>
> >>So I plug 'em in and find to my horror that something in the Dell Bios
> >>stops the LCD's working at above 1024x768 on the gx270's or 1280x1024 on
> >>the gx280's when connected to the funny little DVI boards that come with
> >>the Optiplexes.
> >>
> >>Any clue about what I could try next?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Actually, I think you need Dave Airlie's version of driver, that supports DVI
> >(sii164 transmitter).
> >
> >
> Yeah, was wondering about that.  Not having much luck with that either.
> More details later.
>

My driver should work on the i865 fine if it has an sil164, however
for the i915 you might need to add a modeline as I don't have proper
DDC working for sDVO, I'm hoping Eric's driver provides that fix ...
from the docs...

Dave



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