[Openchrome-users] HP 2133 1.6 2GB/120 WLAN BT 3-CELL 8.9#VHB

[Jon Nettleton]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Miguel Alvarez Blanco y Aurora
Costales Castro <miguelyoyi at telecable.es> wrote:
> Hi, Jon.
>
> Well, we are almost there. Now the mode reported is 1366x768 in xvidtune,
> but the Virtual is 1368x768 (I seem to recall that X had a thing for numbers
> modulo 8, so 1366 is the closest integer multiple of 8), although there is
> no panning (I am not sure if I would notice a 2 pixels panning anyway).
> However, the viewing area is still some 75%, 1026x598 approximately (maybe
> 1024x600, my method for measuring the viewable area is not that precise).
> The HorizSync of the mode is 47.7, in principle out of the specs of the
> panel, but there seems to be no problem about it. I had noticed that the
> reported hsync range was quite narrow, but I am not so keen with what
> happens in flat panels and laptops as opposed to the good old CRTs.
>
> Extra good and odd news: gnome's resolution changer reports now a larger
> list of modes, although the one it takes as default (described above) is
> called 1368x768, while the list as it is shown is: 1366x768 (?), 1360x768,
> 1280x768, 1280x720, 1152x768, 1024x768, 1024x600, 832x624, 800x600, 720x576,
> 640x480, and last of all 1368x768. Oddly enough, if you select 1366x768 or
> 1368x768, xvidtune reports the same mode (1366x768) although the Virtual
> size is different for them (by two pixels), and the viewable area is more or
> less the same. In all the modes, xvidtune reports the same resolution as the
> mode's name, but the viewable area is some 75% of the resolution, always the
> top left 75% of the Virtual size but filling the whole physical panel.
>
> The only hints at something going wrong are the lines:
>
> (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
> (EE) CHROME(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
>
> and
>
> (WW) CHROME(0): [XvMC] XvMC is not supported on this chipset.
>

These are both normal.  DRI is waiting for some code from VIA to land
in the kernel and XvMC for the newer chipsets is waiting for us to fix
up some other problems.

> Also, there was a probably unrelated kernel warning, that (Murphy's law)
> appeared mostly in the 25% of the Virtual desktop and so I could not see
> what exactly it was. Checking kern.log, is in drivers/ssb and seems related
> to the wireless firmware, most likely innocuous for the openchrome driver.

I am curious.  Did you say that the windows driver runs at 1366x768?
I looked online and some HP 2133's do have a resolution of 1024x600.
I am just wondering if perhaps these Mini Notes run at an interpolated
higher resolution on an actual 1024x600 screen.  How does everything
look if you choose 1024x600 in Gnome's resolution changer?  Let me
know about the results.

Jon