i810 driver for tv out

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu Mar 6 10:15:55 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 23:10 +0100, Dirk Thierbach wrote:

> > Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> > However, the Chrontel specs are open, so anybody who wanted to write
> > a driver for it for xf86-video-intel could, and they would have the
> > opportunity to control overscan and other options in the way that
> > the old pre-2.0 driver couldn't.
> 
> We already talked about the problem that unless there's some more
> flexible way to specify modelines with other values than the standard
> ones, the best one could do here is a very ugly hack, or one could
> fall back on a number of fixed modes like the closed source drivers
> do. That might be ok for the Chrontel chips, but not for the others.
> And as long as both this infrastructure is missing and I have no
> hardware to test on, either, the incentive for me to do the work isn't
> very high :-)

Sorry for my lack of clue here, but I try to avoid SDTV stuff whenever I
can.  Are there aspects of the video mode outside of the current timings
information that would be inexpressible through RandR properties?

-- 
Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com

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