X to TV

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 11:25:43 PDT 2006


> >> 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.

That would provide the same functionality as 915resolution right?

- Grant



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