[Openchrome-users] Trying to use 1280x800: no mode of this name

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:21:31AM -0500, gpeters at deepsky.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:22:55AM +0100, Roger Dover wrote:
> > 
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:16:44 -0500
> > Von: gpeters at deepsky.com
> > An: Roger Dover <rdover at gmx.net>
> > Betreff: Re: [Openchrome-users] Trying to use 1280x800: no mode of this name
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:56:26AM +0100, Roger Dover wrote:
> > > > I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2055 laptop, with a Via Unichome
> > > > VN800 chipset and a widescreen 1280x800 display.
> > > > 
> > > > I have compiled the openchrome driver, and it successfully detects my
> > > > chipset and works fine on 1280x768 resolution.
> > > > 
> > > > I have put a modeline in xorg.conf for 1280x800, but the mode seems to
> > > be rejected for some reason.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Do you have VBEModes on?  The video card section of your config wasn't
> > > in your cut-and-paste.
> > > 
> > > - Gavin
> > 
> > 
> > I tried with VBEModes off and on but I don't see
> > any difference.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Now that's weird; I would have thought you'd at least get a discussion of
> why the mode was rejected.  You're running with the command line option
> -logverbose 6?  Like, say, this:
> 
> startx -- -logverbose 6
> 
>  ??
> 
> - Gavin
> 

I believe i added ViaDebug in the summer of 2005 to my code, the runtime 
verbose logging (loglevel 7) is only available in xf86-video-unichrome.

Openchrome doesn't have native panel modesetting. It falls back to VBE.

Luc Verhaegen.
http://unichrome.sf.net/