Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.7.191

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/23/07, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:51 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 8/23/07, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm at maven.pl> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 23 of August 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > >
> > > > ATI 6.8 pre-release
> > > > This is the long awaited radeon driver with randr 1.2 support.
> > > > radeon 6.7 was pretty much a dead end, so it's been branched for those that
> > > > still want to play with it.  In addition to randr support there are quite a
> > > > few other goodies: zero copy tfp, improved connector table parsing, TV-out
> > > > support, and much more.
> > >
> > > Tested it with xserver 1.3.0.0 on thinkpad z60m (radeon mobility x600) and
> > > there are two problems visible at beginning.
> > >
> > > First when I start X server it runs with 1024x768 instead of native (+
> > > configured) 1680x1050. No idea why it ignores what's in configuration:
> > >
> >
> > The default virtual size in the driver is 1600x1200.
>
> Any problem making it 1920x1200 by default (i.e. quite the max size
> before going dual-link) ? There are laptops with their screen that big
> nowadays, maybe making the ATI driver plug-and-play on upgrade is worth
> it ?

For now I'm planning to change the code to set reasonable defaults
based on available vram.

Alex