deleting bad probed modeline

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

>  Carsten,
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 09:49:50AM +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> C> > Reading through sources it seems the old API XF86VidModeDeleteModeline still
> C> > can delete it, but is there any working tool left that uses it old API?
> C> > xvidtune seems to be not functional at all.
> C> >
> C> > Any ideas?
> C>
> C> xvidtune was never really working (well) anyway. it was a poor extension... :)
> C>
> C> what you probably want is an LD_PRELOAD to just override xvidtune calls just
> C> for this program and have it filter/change responses. :) this is what i've done
> C> various times in the past for misbehaving apps i wanted to tame.
>
> Not a solution for this particular app, as it is statically linked.  Actually
> this fact keeps it functional on a modern system after so many years.
>
> While I can solve the particular problem for myself (hack the sources), my point
> is that X.Org needs a generic tool to filter out modes reported by hardware, cause
> some of them can be completely faulty (my case) or just undesired by a user.

Maybe I am missing something, but you could specify modelines in xorg.conf 
and then only those modelines are reported. At least that how thing used 
to work last time I tried it.

best

Vladimir Dergachev

>
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> Gleb Smirnoff
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