From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Re: Status of radeonfb in 2.5? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:54:07 -0400 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3DACA222.5030409@netscape.net> <20021016223613.17897@192.168.4.1> <3DADD22F.9030508@netscape.net> <1034808341.1229.282.camel@tibook> <1034969321.1126.2251.camel@tibook> Reply-To: nwourms@netscape.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 182e7V-0007eE-00 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:53:21 -0700 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182e6a-0001v2-00 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:52:24 +0200 Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Michel D=E4nzer wrote: >> >> B) Does anyone have a painless, yet precise way of >> >> generating modelines for fb.modes if you are using >> >> XFree-4.2? I only ask because the XFree modelines are all >> >> determined by i2c DDC probing, thus there are none in the >> >> XF86Config file. >> >=20 >> > If the X driver supports Option "UseFBDev", you should be able to use >> > fbset with that. >> >=20 >>=20 >> Huh? The problem is that fbset will not work because I need to populate >> fb.modes with proper mode lines. So at the moment fbset won't work at >> all. >=20 > I was thinking of running X with Option "UseFBDev" and getting > information about the modes with fbset. >=20 Hmm... I guess that setting doesn't do what I thought it did. I'll give i= t=20 a shot and see if it works. Thanks! Cheers, Nicholas ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf