Ripe for adding new modelines?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
>> There is, in fact, a spec for LCD modelines.  It's called CVT, and at 
>> least nvidia's driver implements it directly.  However VESA are big 
>> meanies and make you pay to see the formula.
> 
> 
> If it's not astronomical, we could talk to the X.Org Foundation sponsors 
> about
> paying to get access for a developer or two willing to work on it.
> 
> (For that matter, I think Sun is a full VESA member, if there's 
> something we can
>  lookup - I'd have to check with the right people to see what we can do 
> with the
>  docs we get from VESA though, since I've never looked at that before.)


I finally got in contact with our VESA rep, and we can't share the docs with
non-Sun employees.   He thinks it should only be a couple of hundred dollars
for the X.Org Foundation to purchase a copy, so if someone is interested in
working on this, I'd suggest putting together a quick proposal to the X.Org
Sponsors Group to fund this.   Stuart Krietman, the sponsors group chair,
should be able to help figure out what they'd want to see - I assume someone
who already has Xorg CVS access and a track record of delivering would not
have much of a problem in convincing the sponsors to fund this, but since I'm
not directly involved I can't say.

(Our VESA rep/monitor guru does think CVT support in Xorg would be an
  excellent idea though.)

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