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R500 initial driver release

Posted Jun 13, 2007 22:38 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
In reply to: R500 initial driver release by pflugstad
Parent article: R500 initial driver release

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.

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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!