[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 1.9.91 (2.0 RC1)

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Wed Mar 7 05:47:45 PST 2007


On Wednesday 07 March 2007 08:27:45 Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 08:01 +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c:
> > [...]
> > static OptionInfoRec xf86OutputOptions[] = {
> >     {OPTION_PREFERRED_MODE, "PreferredMode",    OPTV_STRING,  {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_POSITION,       "Position",         OPTV_STRING,  {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_BELOW,          "Below",            OPTV_STRING,  {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_RIGHT_OF,       "RightOf",          OPTV_STRING,  {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_ABOVE,          "Above",            OPTV_STRING,  {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_LEFT_OF,        "LeftOf",           OPTV_STRING,  {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_ENABLE,         "Enable",           OPTV_BOOLEAN, {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_DISABLE,        "Disable",          OPTV_BOOLEAN, {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_MIN_CLOCK,      "MinClock",         OPTV_FREQ,    {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_MAX_CLOCK,      "MaxClock",         OPTV_FREQ,    {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_IGNORE,         "Ignore",           OPTV_BOOLEAN, {0}, FALSE
> > }, {OPTION_ROTATE,         "Rotate",           OPTV_STRING,  {0}, FALSE
> > }, {-1,                    NULL,               OPTV_NONE,    {0}, FALSE
> > }, };
> >
> > Could you make a small example, so one could better understand? Just
> > the options to use with which values and where to put them in
> > xorg.conf.
>
> I'm busy writing up some more complete documentation (which is also
> happily uncovering several gaps in the current implementation).
>
> However, here's a short summary:
>
> In the "Device" section, you add options that connect new "Monitor"
> sections to specific outputs:
>
> Section "Device"
> 	Driver  "intel"
> 	Option	"monitor-VGA" "My VGA Monitor"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier "My VGA Monitor"
> EndSection
>
> Now, in this "Monitor" section, you can place any of the options you see
> listed above to control the modes and placement of the output. As
> "Monitor" sections do not have a list of modes to offer, I added only a
> single "PreferredMode" option which selects the mode to be used at
> server startup time.
>
> You can define monitors for each output and configure the whole thing
> however you like. Please feel free to edit the README.modes file that I
> have added to the hw/xfree86/docs in the server.

I've been testing this with my i915GM, a 1400x1050 laptop monitor and external 
1680x1050 LCD, for a dual head setup. Last log and xorg.conf is put up in

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10098

where I've also detailed some more of the results. Since I'm not getting 
output on both, I suspect that I still got some config options wrong for what 
I want to do, the log seems to think everything is ok. Note that I 
occasionally have gotten too little ram errors, which is the reason for the 
high value there (got the error once with half the amount).

Regards,
Lars Ivar Igesund

Note that I'm trying this branch as 915resolution + i810 only works for one of 
my two available external LCD's.



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