How to set mode to 1080p24 for HDTV

[Andy Furniss]

Frederik Vogelsang wrote:
> 2011/10/31 Andy Furniss<andyqos at ukfsn.org>:
>> Look in Xorg.0.log the modes may be listed.
> Nope. Only when using fglrx the modes are listed, with the free radeon
> driver they are not. I never thought a mature video driver like
> "radeon" would ignore the CEA EDID.

Looking again it's actually DDC that is printing my modes not EDID which 
doesn't list 24p (though it lists a couple which still don't show with 
xrandr)


>> If you can see the mode then just add it with xrandr, my tv is DVI-0 so I
>> use -
> OK, thanks. I have now set a custom modeline in my xorg.conf.d directory:
>
>> Modeline    "1920x1080" 74.25   1920 2558 2602 2750 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync
>
> With this manual configuration HD movies run smoothly.

Cool - if you ever hit problems, which I have with xv + mplayer when 
refresh rate = fps try using mplayer -vo gl:yuv=2 -framedrop.