[Intel-gfx] Sandy Bridge Desktop - 1920x1080i interlace not working

[Alfonso Fiore]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni at dodonov.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:14, Alfonso Fiore <alfonso.fiore at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Angela,
>>
>> I have a very similar problem!
>>
>> I have Sandy Bridge (i3 2130) and a Philips 32pf9731d (coincidence?).
>> With my previous i3 550 I didn't have any problem.
>>
>> I tried all possible resolutions over HDMI and all the time the screen is
>> split in two (twice the top half) and flickering. I also can't manage to
>> use VGA (TV has VGA input).
>>
>> I also tried with the latest kernel and latest X.
>>
>> Can you try to run this tool? http://polypux.org/projects/read-edid/
>>
>> I'm absolutely not an expert, but the output I get (Your EDID is probably
>> invalid.) is not encouraging.
>>
>> I'd love to know if you get the same error.
>>
>
> Could you try with the following two patches which just came to this list
> this week?
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/8006
>
> Don't know if they will fix the problem, but they could help perhaps.
>
>
Hi Eugeni,

and thank you.

I'm just an end-user. I have the willingness to try, but I need a bit more
guidance... I've never compiled X. If you can point me to some page that
explains the process I'll be more than happy to try.

cheers,
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