[PATCH] drm_edid: support CEA video modes

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:37:51PM +0100, Andy Furniss wrote:
> Joakim Plate wrote:
> >Joakim Plate<elupus<at>  ecce.se>  writes:
> >
> >>
> >>Christian Schmidt<schmidt<at>  digadd.de>  writes:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>TFT/plasma televisions and projectors have become commonplace, and so
> >>>has the use of PCs to drive them. Add the video modes specified by an
> >>>EDID's CEA extension to the mode database for a connector.
> >>
> >>/Joakim
> >>
> >
> >Shameless bump on the subject. Would be nice if we could
> >get this list complete when connecting to HDTV's.
> 
> Yea, it would be nice.
> 
> UK bluray seems to use 24/1.001 - not that it's that bad watching
> with TV at 24Hz.
> 
> I do have issues with interlaced modes on my TV. I don't know how
> DRM handles interlaced, but CEA says that the number of vblank lines
> alternates per field. If that isn't happening then I guess that's
> why.

If this is on an intel gpu, you need kernel 3.4 to make interlaced work.
If that doesn't help, please file a bug on bugs.freedesktop.org.
-Daniel
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