[Openchrome-users] OpenChrome and 775VM800 - Progress

[Thomas Hellstrom]

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:54:20PM +0000, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
>> On Friday 10 February 2006 22:45, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:36:14PM +0000, morgoth6 at box43.pl wrote:
>> > >
>> > >         Option      "VBEModes"     "on"
>> > >         Option      "NoDDC"        "on"
>> > >
>> > > Doing this makes possible to get 1024x768 at 75 with drivers patched a
>> > > bit for VM800. Monitor can easyly reeach 85 but 75 is not so bad.
>> >
>> > And VBE creeps on.
>> >
>> Well with it working under VBE we can get Xv working first and then work
>> out
>> what's different with the dotclock for the VM800.
>> Hey we could do both at the same time perhaps?
>
> Sure. That's how it'll happen. Not that anyone said that before.
>

Luc:
It's amazing that this never settles.

Yes. VBE _is_ hampering development of output support on the Unichromes.
Under some circumstances it might even be justified to call it a rot in
the driver. I think most people that have read your reasoning agrees.

However, None of the Unichrome Pro TV-out support fixes would have
happened without VBE modes, and I also believe that most people reading
this agree that wilfully hiding features from users in order to have a
greater chance of receiving hardware donations to implement proper
modesetting is not the right way to go.

An idea that came up on XDevConf was to brand hardware Xorg compliant. A
little logo goes with it. Although the idea was initially targeted at
broken KVMs that would not let through EDID information, why not include
free modesetting for all supported output devices. That would target the
hardware manufacturers instead of our own users.

/Thomas










> Luc Verhaegen.
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