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[Barry Scott]

Rene Rebe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 11 September 2006 13:58, Ross Burton wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 12:41 +0100, Ian Grant wrote:
>>     
>>> In the next month or two we will buy several dozen machines for use
>>> with digital flat panel displays. Because it's the start of term in
>>> October we can't wait for Xorg 7.2 release, sadly. Would it be foolish
>>> to try to use ADD2 DVI cards and the modesetting i810 branch before
>>> then? The displays are 1600x1200 so running them from analog might be
>>> embarassing. But maybe I'll experiment a bit today.
>>>       
>> I have a 1680x1050 panel that I'm currently running with an analogue
>> cable.  I tried the modesettings branch but it crashed for me (I've yet
>> to get more gdb action to try and fix it up) so for now I'm using stock
>> X, and with a decent VGA cable its surprisingly sharp.
>>     
>
> I use the modesetting branch to drive my primary work display and
> beamers on talks on the MacBook which usually works ok.
>
> Maybe the modesetting can be merged to HEAD even without the
> Xrandr updates to allow on-the-fly reconfiguration?
>   
I've been testing the modesetting branch and have reported a number of
problems around configuration and stability.

* The driver will lock up hard after a couple of restarts of X server.
   Recover only by power cycling the machine.
* The DDC and EDID info is ignored.

Barry