[PATCH] i810: Add workaround for bad BIOS mode on Fujitsu laptops

[Tobias Knieper]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 20:40, you wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 12:23 +0100, Tobias Knieper wrote:
> > Hello,
> > i believe i have a similar problem. Running the xf86-video-intel
> > modesetting branch works fine for my external display at 1680x1050.
> > Thanks so far!
> >
> > But my internal display does no longer work. I'm using a Fujitsu Siemens
> > Amilo M7400 Notebook. (82852/855GM)
> >
> > I fetched the recent driver by doing:
> > git-clone git://gitweb.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
> > cd xf86-video-intel
> > git checkout modesetting
> > git-pull -s ours
>
> Not sure what you were trying to achieve with that git-pull -s ours
> there.
>
> > Important lines of Xorg.0.log:
> > (II) intel(0): Found panel mode in BIOS VBT tables:
> > (II) intel(0): Modeline "54x0"x0.0  348.40  54 310 1108 54  0 51 105 0
> > (6451.9 kHz)
> > [,..]
> > (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 347 x 260
> >
> > If you need further information, let me know. Thanks a lot for the great
> > work, Tobias Knieper
>
> I didn't see a patch attached, despite the subject of the message.

My response was meant as a reponse to 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-January/021412.html - sorry 
that i messed it up.

> The current code will hopefully avoid the BIOS VBT tables and give you a
> decent mode.  However, if you have a patch to fix up the table reading
> on your laptop when that's the case, that would still be useful as we do
> fall back to the VBT when we have no other source of panel mode
> information.

I'll give the current LVDS fixes a try this evening and will report back later 
on. Thanks so far.