[mythtv-users] Ahh - Evil xorg and modelines

Steve Smith st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 08:50:17 UTC 2007


Damian,

The first thing you need to do is get X to accept the mode. You need to use
--logverbose 5 to see what decisions it's making and why...

Cheers

Steve

On 07/06/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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