xrandr tmds_pll option with radeon?

[Alex Deucher]

On 4/10/09, Robert Uhl <r.uhl at xaipete.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>  last night i updated x.org-server to 1.5.3 on my Thinkpad R51 running
>  Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6.27.12, with radeon driver.
>  Before the update i executed the following at fvwm startup:
>
>  xrandr --output DVI-0 --set tmds_pll driver
>  xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1600x1200 --rate 60.0
>
>  Without this, my NEC 2090UXi TFT-Display attached via Dockingstation only
>  allows 1280x1024 as maximum resolution. If i tried to do
>  xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1600x1200 --rate 60.0
>  the display turns black and doesn't show anything.
>  After searching in google, i found a post on a mailinglist with
>  xrandr --output DVI-0 --set tmds_pll driver
>  and with this command everything worked fine.
>
>
>  But now with the new xorg-server version xrandr says:
>
>  $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --set tmds_pll driver
>  X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  150 (RANDR)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  11 ()
>   Serial number of failed request:  19
>   Current serial number in output stream:  19
>
>  So it is not possible to set the TFT resolution to 1600x1200, again
>  black display.
>
>  Maybe someone knows where the tmds_pll option is gone?

Sorry typo in the code associated it with the wrong tmds encoder.
It's fixed in xf86-video-ati git.

Alex