[Openchrome-users] Not enough bandwidth?

[Xavier Bachelot]

Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
> Hello
> 
> On 25/12/2007, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 22/12/2007, Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
>>> Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I was trying to get the openchrom dirver to work (from trunk) on a
>>>> K8M890 but seem to run into a problem:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> (II) CHROME(0): ViaValidMode: Validating 1680x1050 (147140)
>>>> (II) CHROME(0): ViaModePrimaryVGAValid
>>>> (II) CHROME(0): Required bandwidth is not available. (423370592 > 74000000)
>>>> (II) CHROME(0): Not using default mode "1680x1050" (mode clock too high)
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> After a lot of similar things it falls back to 640x480 which is really
>>>> not very nice.  Before that it rejects a lot of modes due to out of
>>>> range v and h syncs etc, but they all look fine.  However then it
>>>> starts to do bandwidth checks and rejects everything appart from the
>>>> 640x480.
>>>>
>>>> When using the propriatry via driver however, it can do 1680x1050 so
>>>> the bandwidth must be there?  Any hints on what could be wrong?  Here
>>>> some config extracts:
> [...]
> 
> This finally works fine with the attached patch from Xavier Bachelot.
> I've also attached the xorg.log when using it.  The screen also looks
> way better then when using the proriatery driver, thanks!  :-)
> 
Patch commited, thx for testing.

> If you'd like me to do some more tests I probably won't be able to do
> too much as this is really my parent's computer and I live in a
> different country normally.  Since I'm leaving them again today and
> have no remote access due to a silly ISP, testing further things will
> be very difficult and slow.  But I can try if you would like me to.
>
Testing video driver remotely is difficult anyway ;-)

> Merry Christmas
> Floris
>
Merry Christmas to you too.
Xavier