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[Barry Scott]

Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 14:18 +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
>   
>> Rene Rebe wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Monday 11 September 2006 13:58, Ross Burton wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 12:41 +0100, Ian Grant wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> In the next month or two we will buy several dozen machines for use
>>>>> with digital flat panel displays. Because it's the start of term in
>>>>> October we can't wait for Xorg 7.2 release, sadly. Would it be foolish
>>>>> to try to use ADD2 DVI cards and the modesetting i810 branch before
>>>>> then? The displays are 1600x1200 so running them from analog might be
>>>>> embarassing. But maybe I'll experiment a bit today.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> I have a 1680x1050 panel that I'm currently running with an analogue
>>>> cable.  I tried the modesettings branch but it crashed for me (I've yet
>>>> to get more gdb action to try and fix it up) so for now I'm using stock
>>>> X, and with a decent VGA cable its surprisingly sharp.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I use the modesetting branch to drive my primary work display and
>>> beamers on talks on the MacBook which usually works ok.
>>>
>>> Maybe the modesetting can be merged to HEAD even without the
>>> Xrandr updates to allow on-the-fly reconfiguration?
>>>   
>>>       
>> I've been testing the modesetting branch and have reported a number of
>> problems around configuration and stability.
>>
>> * The driver will lock up hard after a couple of restarts of X server.
>>    Recover only by power cycling the machine.
>> * The DDC and EDID info is ignored.
>>     
>
> File them as bugs Barry, that way things don't get lost in the archives.
>
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org
>
>   
Already done Alan, I guess I was not clear enough above when I said the bugs
have been reported.

Barry