Apple 23" Cinema HD Display vs. radeon

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 1 15:22:00 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 00:21 +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> > Ok, so I finally found some of the causes for the problems with the
> > Apple 23" Cinema HD Display and X.org.
> 
> I am considering getting a Mac mini with a 23" Cinema Display and I
> want to run it with Free Software.  So, what is the status with the
> problem above?  Has it it been fixed in the xorg CVS?  If not, do you
> still have hopes of ever getting it to work?  (Maybe I could help a
> bit...)

It works on mine, with some "noise" problems on the screen that seem to
be a HW issue (happens in OS X as well), I'm wiating for Apple to
replace either the mini or the display.

You may have to give x.org an explicit modeline though as it may fail
auto-detecting the screen.

Ben.





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