i855 timing mismatch, xorg lying about frequencies ? [was: 'Moiree' patterns...]

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 22:11 +0200, xorg at zevv.nl wrote:
> 
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> * On 2006-09-27 Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote  :
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> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:38:20PM +0800, cckuo wrote:
> > > After roughly study the source code of Intel, you may add
> > > PrintModeline() at the end of I830PrintModes() function, if the path I guess
> > > is correct.
> > 
> > The modelines still aren't used anywhere in the normal driver: only in
> > the modesetting branch.  The normal driver ignores modelines and uses
> > the BIOS to set the mode.
> 
> Ok, I just built the latest xf86-video-intel driver from git, but still
> no good results here: X still seems to ingnore my custom modelines. Is
> there anything else I should know about ?

But, did you use the modesetting branch?

git checkout modesetting

-jwb