better intel i8x0 drivers someday?

[Alex Deucher]

--- Martin van Es <martin at mrvanes.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd first like to congratulate x.Org on their first official release!
> It runs like a charm! :)
> 
> Then back to business:
> 
> I've always had a love/hate relationship with my linux/xfree laptop
> install
> since it's based on the intel i810 do-it-all VGA etc. chipset and the
> screen
> is 1400x1280. The bios however is not aware of this resolution and
> reports
> 1280x1024 to the driver. This is a limitation of the driver since the
> official intel i8x0 documentation is not (yet) available and therefor
> non-bios resolutions can't be set. A well known issue with this
> chipset/driver.
> 
> David Dawes of Xfree86 was responsible for the i8x0 driver and was in
> no way
> inclined nor able to further investigate on this due to lack of time,
> hardware AND documentation.
> 
> Is anybody in the x.Org group willing/able to pick up on this?
> I'm not a hardware programmer, but am willing to beta test any
> efforts where
> possible!

Intel just released a binary xfree86 IEGD i8xx driver for embedded
applications.  it supports native mode setting and dualhead among other
things.  whether or not they release the source is up in the air.  For
more info see the recent threads on the xfree86 devel ML:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108161387200001&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108256844100006&r=1&w=2

Alex

> 
> Keep up the good works!
> 
> Grtz,
> Martin
> 



	
		
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