[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines
Damian Surr
damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Thu Jun 7 08:45:44 UTC 2007
Damian Surr wrote:
> Back to basics. I'm currently switching between my old backup xorg
> (which had 800x600 working fine) and the modified one that I'm working
> on to keep the misses happy when she wants TV.
>
> I'm now humbly just trying to get 800x600 at 60Hz working as I know that
> works fine when edid is enabled.
>
> I've tried setting the mode to "800x600" with no modeline, but that
> didn't work.
>
> I went to http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl and tried to
> produce a mode line based on this info from my BenQ W100 manual:
>
> Supported timing for PC input
> Horizontal Vertical Pixel
> Resolution Frequency Frequency Frequency Mode
> (kHz) (Hz) (MHz)
> 800 x 600 37.879 60.317 40.000 SVGA_60
>
> The mode line it returned was:
>
> |Modeline "800x600 at 60" 38.44 800 832 976 1008 600 612 618 631
>
> this didn't work.
> I remembered someone saying that the first number should be the same as Pixel Frequency, so tried editing to
>
> ||Modeline "800x600 at 60" 40.00 800 832 976 1008 600 612 618 631
>
> That hasn't worked.
>
> I just don't know what to do with this. I keep expecting a breakthrough, but nothing's coming.
>
> Any ideas?
> Damian
>
I'm not setting any
+hsync +vsync
options. Could that be the problem?
Damian
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