From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <46FD5604.3060104@am.sony.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:29:08 -0700 From: Geoff Levand MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michael@ellerman.id.au Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 0/8] PS3 AV Settings Driver patches for 2.6.24 References: <20070926163308.772580000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <1190860285.6502.6.camel@concordia> <46FBE6FD.3030605@am.sony.com> <1190968833.15970.3.camel@concordia> In-Reply-To: <1190968833.15970.3.camel@concordia> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, "Antonino A. Daplas" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:23 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: >> Michael Ellerman wrote: >> > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:33 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> >> Question: As several DVI-D displays advertise they support 1080i modes while >> >> they actually don't (cfr. the quirk database), perhaps I should drop 1080i >> >> modes completely from the ps3av_preferred_modes[] table? Usually 720p looks >> >> better than 1080i anyway. What do you think? >> > >> > Definitely. If the autodetection fails Linux is basically unusable on >> > PS3 unless you hack the kernel sources and build your own kboot and >> > otheros.bld - not entirely trivial for novice users. So it's pretty >> > important that it works 100%. >> >> It is not that bad. If a bootloader is configued to use autodetection >> so that it is shown at best video mode, then it should have advertised >> key sequences to default to known video modes, with at least a 480p 'safe' >> mode. > > Oh OK, that is a good idea. What's the "safe mode" key sequence for the > otheros.bld you provide on kernel.org? I don't maintain that, and have no idea how it sets its video mode. Did you have trouble with it? I know in the past it used a fixed 480p mode. -Geoff