Intel driver does not honor Preferred Mode

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:03:40AM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> My TMDS-1 connected monitor does not like the default 1600x1200 
> resolution used by X. I have created a new mode for this resolution that 
> works for me. Unfortunately, the intel driver does not honor the 
> "PreferredMode" option in my Monitor section.
> 
> I'm using a gentoo ebuild, and I am trying to debug it, but it doesn't 
> seem to build anything within src/modes and a grep on intel_drv.so for 
> "using initial mode" shows that the code that outputs that line in the 
> xorg log file is not included in the intel_drv.so. Where is the mode 
> choosing code compiled into?


  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10625

Keith provided a fix, but the bugreport is still open. :-(

Best regards,
Stefan

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