test intel git repo, with modesetting

Lukas Hejtmanek xhejtman at fi.muni.cz
Mon Apr 10 05:30:49 PDT 2006


On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:53:55PM +0200, John Hughes wrote:
> I am extremely interested in this as I have a collection of Dell
> Optiplex workstations, gx270's (865G based with DVI board in AGP slot)
> and gx280s' (915G based with DVI board in PCI express slot).
> 
> Up 'till now we've been using 19" CRTs which work ok.  But now everyone
> is nagging me to get some nice 21" LCDs.
> 
> So I plug 'em in and find to my horror that something in the Dell Bios
> stops the LCD's working at above 1024x768 on the gx270's or 1280x1024 on
> the gx280's when connected to the funny little DVI boards that come with
> the Optiplexes.
> 
> Any clue about what I could try next?

Actually, I think you need Dave Airlie's version of driver, that supports DVI
(sii164 transmitter).

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Lukáš Hejtmánek



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