i810 driver: Xv on mergefd

[Alan Hourihane]

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:19 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 11:51 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:55 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 09:37 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 02:47 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > >  
> > > > > My real problem is that i need mergedfb and modesetting, because i
> > > > > managed to hack the modesetting branch to work with my bad-BIOS (only
> > > > > has panel size 1024x768, and my panel is 1280x800). But that branch only
> > > > > does clone mode :-/ I asked before but is there any way to help with
> > > > > bringing modesetting to the master branch, i saw you (Alan) started
> > > > > another git repo to do this. 
> > > > 
> > > > Right. So you can use this code if you wish, but I don't expect the
> > > > modesetting code to go into the master until it can do everything that
> > > > the current BIOS driver can. 
> > > 
> > > How "correct" is the code in the projects/users/alanh/xorg? 
> > 
> > As "correct" as it can be if it works on your hardware. :-)
> 
> Well i got it working, it didn't find my monitor on the CRT port. The
> "monitor" is a VGA->LVDS converter. So i hacked it a bit that it thinks
> the monitor is always there.
> 
> Also the LVDS panel seems to flicker, i didn't have this with the other
> branches (like modesetting).  Any ideas why this is different ? 

Are you sure it's getting the right refresh rate ?

Alan.