R500 initial driver release [LWN.net]

R500 initial driver release

Posted Jun 13, 2007 21:13 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: R500 initial driver release by pflugstad
Parent article: R500 initial driver release

I would have got Intel graphics on my (3 month old) laptop, but couldn't find one that supported a 17" screen and WSXGA+ resolution. I don't know if the X3000 can do that. If so I'll keep it in mind for next time.

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R500 initial driver release

Posted Jun 13, 2007 21:42 UTC (Wed) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link]

The laptop I have is 17" wide screen and runs native at 1920x1080 under Windoze. Under the Ubuntu live CD it ran 1600x1200 by default - I've heard that there is a tweak to the Intel graphics driver to let it do 1920x1080, but I haven't had a chance to track it down.

The graphics is Intel GMA 950.

R500 initial driver release

Posted Jun 13, 2007 22:38 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

You can either use the "915resolution" tool, or use Intel's new modesetting driver.

For my computer, the modesetting driver worked perfectly for a wide DVI screen, but it had some problems doing PAL TV output, apparently the BIOS defaults to NTSC, and the modesetting driver doesn't know how to change that, giving me B/W output.

PAL output support on Intel chips

Posted Jun 14, 2007 6:57 UTC (Thu) by keithp (subscriber, #5140) [Link]

Just in case you're still reading down this far...

Fetch an updated version of xrandr from git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xrandr (yes, I should make an updated release). The minor updates there include the ability to set output properties that used named values, including the TV_FORMAT property which can be set to a huge list of possible formats, including three different PAL variants. You can also adjust the margins around the screen to align the displayed image with the monitor.

PAL output support on Intel chips

Posted Jun 14, 2007 9:23 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

Nice! :)

I wont need it right now, as I only used the modesetting version for the widescreen monitor I set it up with at first (I'm using the computer as a server and mythtv frontend), so the old version is fine.

OTOH, the picture isn't perfectly aligned with the TV, so maybe I should play around with it.

Thanks for the heads up!