HD with Xvideo on i915GM (i810 driver)

[galenz at zinkconsulting.com]

On Oct 23, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Alan Hourihane wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 09:42 -0700, galenz at zinkconsulting.com wrote:
>>>> LinearAlloc 6144 got me up to 720P as well. But I'm running the
>>>> latest
>>>> modsetting branch driver
>>>>
>>>>   git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
>>>>
>>>> and have the 1080i problem.  I don't know the relationship of  
>>>> this to
>>>> 1.7.2. Any advise?
>>>
>>> modesetting doesn't have the fixes, but in i830_video.c you have to
>>> bump
>>> the MAX_HEIGHT to at least 1088.
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>
>> Which in turn requires recompiling X.org?
>
> No. Just the driver.
>
> Alan.

I will investigate this further as soon as I boot FC5 again.

Is there any reason this isn't in the driver by default?

-Galen