i810 problem with external montior

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:15, Barry Scott wrote:

> kmand wrote:
> > I'm running Xorg 6.9 on Suse 10.1 on a Fujitsu Lifebook S7000 with a 
> >
> >  Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller rev
> > 3,
> >
> > I want to use the external VGA port at 1280x768. I can use the FN-F10 to
> > nicely switch from the laptops 1024x768 LCD to the external monitor, but no
> > matter what I have tried with xorg.conf I'm limited to the three vesa built
> > in resolutions of 1024x768, 800x600, and 640x480.
> >
> > One thing I notice in the log is
> >
> > (II) I810(0): Display Info: CRT: attached: TRUE, present: TRUE, size:
> > (1024,768)
> >
> > which is not correct, and I wonder if thats the limitation.
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >   
> The i810 driver does not support 1280x768 yet. The developers are adding 
> support
> for the next(?) Xorg release. There is a modesetting branch in git with 
> the new code
> on it.

Current release driver supports what the BIOS table contains. One
can patch the mode into the BIOS table using the 915resolution hack.

Yours,

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