Ripe for adding new modelines?

[Philip Prindeville]

Alex Deucher wrote:

>On 8/18/05, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
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>>Patrick McFarland wrote:
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>>>On Friday 12 August 2005 04:40 am, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
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>>>>Erm, does the common code in the meantime take care of this? Did I miss
>>>>something? So far, I know only of the SiS and radeon drivers to convert
>>>>ddc timings to modelines internally...
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>>>Is it me, or does this sound like something that should be made a generic
>>>driver feature? (WWAAAARGH! I'm not volunteering!!!)
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>>Well, I can stare at it some....  But the last time I worked on X
>>drivers it was X11R3, and it was on a VAXstation-II... that should
>>tell you how long ago it was.
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>>If someone can walk me through what needs to be done, I can
>>see about writing the code (or restructuring it, if it is already
>>present in the SiS drivers and just needs to be generalized) and
>>testing it.
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>>BTW:  Does anyone have access to standard timing modes for
>>the various TV standard modes (i.e. 1280x720p, etc) for HD,
>>ATSC, PAL/SECAM, NSTC-M and -J, etc.
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>this ought to get you started:
>http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/video_card_configuration.html
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>Alex
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I looked at those modes previously, and some of them are not well-formed
(missing fields, etc) or have intervals that aren't valid for a lot of X 
servers
that require multiples of 8, etc.

-Philip


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>>Thanks,
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>>-Philip
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