Re: [PATCH] Add fb_check_var() for fixed mode device.

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 14:16 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 
> > | X.Org X Server 1.4.2
> 
> [...]
> 
> > | (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO succeeded but modified mode
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Hence Xorg is broken on all embedded devices with a frame buffer driver
> > that supports a single fixed video mode only?
> 
> No. As discussed before, you're probably missing
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=c095da04fe7c73b6503ef5b93549b13796c51b22
> 
> which is in the upcoming xserver 1.5 release.

Ah, upcoming. That's not current/previous/... ;-)

> (BTW, would you happen to remember what the magic pixclock value was
> there for in the first place? :)

To avoid a division by zero exception? I guess I just took a value that
looked sensible.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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