Poor image quality on Thinkpad T60 notebook WXSGA+ w/ Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 2/6/07, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> You can try the modesetting branch of the intel driver; that will dump
> out all of the relevant register contents to the log file so we can make
> sure the hardware is programmed correctly. It's also possible that it
> will program the hardware differently than the BIOS.

Sure thing! Good thing Fedora packages the modesetting driver too..
this was a snap.

I tried it. X starts up but it is apparently totally unaware that it
is giving me a useless black screen.

Sounds like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6942 perhaps?
   As a WAG I tried using the driver option to disable DDC, but it
didn't help. (nor did it appear to do much of anything).

This is the output of the modesetting driver:
http://pastebin.ca/342330

For reference, this is the output of the normal driver:  (which works,
but I'm hoping it's the cause of my 16bit output rather than my
hardware)
http://pastebin.ca/342333

All of this output is after a fresh power cycle.. but earlier I played
with the 915resolution tool and I noticed that it's idea of the bios
differed from the i810 driver's (the url directly above):
http://pastebin.ca/342334

(look at mode 6c vs i810 drivers idea of 6c.. weird?)

And for completeness sake, my xorg.conf:
http://pastebin.ca/342335

It's really boring.. to switch to the modesetting driver I just change
the driver line to "intel" ... The fedora folks are nice enough to
package both. (and I guess on some hardware they auto switch to the
modesetting driver)

Thanks for the suggestion, if you think I should log my output into
any particular bug, please let me know. Obviously, if there is any
other data you'd like me to collect...