i810 driver problem
Lukas Hejtmanek
xhejtman at fi.muni.cz
Thu May 4 09:30:15 PDT 2006
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:27:10PM +1000, Russell Strong wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the i810 driver ( version 1.6.0 installed from
> the aiglx repo ). I've set the resolution to 1920x1200, however I get
> 1600x1200 on the screen. It makes people in photos look fat :)
>
> I've found the following in the log, however I don't know what, if
> anything there is that I can do about it. Any ideas?
>
> (II) I810(0): Not using mode "1920x1200" (no mode of this name)
> (II) I810(0): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (1600
> -> 2048).
> (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1600x1200 (pitch 2048)
> (**) I810(0): Built-in mode "1600x1200"
You are using driver that uses BIOS for mode setting.
You can:
a) grab 915resolution (http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/) and tweak BIOS to
support 1900x1200 mode.
b) try to install driver from git repository - branch modesetting.
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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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