X to TV

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 08:36:02 PDT 2006


> > > Section "Monitor"
> > >        Identifier "monitor1"
> > >        Modeline "736x485i" 14.16 736 760 824 904 485 491 496 525
> > > interlace -hsync -vsync
> > > EndSection
> >
> > You can't set an explicit modeline with the BIOS-based i810 driver. Feel
> > free to try the 'modesetting' branch in the git repository to see if
> > that works for you.
>
> Actually, you can. It just has to match an existing BIOS mode, and then
> that modeline will override the BIOS modeline - well, in theory anyway.

Are you saying the resolution specified in the Modeline must match a
resolution in the BIOS?  Then the rest of the Modeline will be
applied?

Also, does anyone know if/when the modesetting branch's functionality
will be integrated into the main branch?

- Grant



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