X to TV

Donnie Berkholz dberkholz at gentoo.org
Wed Sep 13 11:16:13 PDT 2006


Grant wrote:
>> The 'modesetting' branch in git programs modes directly rather than
>> relying on the bios so it will work with modelines.
> 
> I'm using Gentoo and I've only ever used ebuilds to install software.
> The modesetting ability isn't included in 7.1 is it?

I've got a live git intel driver in my overlay -- see
dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/overlay/ for info on getting it. If you add an
EGIT_BRANCH="modesetting" right under the SNAPSHOT line in the ebuild
(it must be _above_ the inherit line) and re-manifest it, it should work
fine.

Thanks,
Donnie

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