Bug 5493

Summary: Smarter clone mode for radeon(4)
Product: xorg Reporter: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: alan.coopersmith, henry.zhao, stuart.kreitman
Version: gitKeywords: patch
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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radeon-better-lvds-clone-1.patch
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radeon-better-lvds-clone-2.patch none

Description Adam Jackson 2006-01-04 08:17:16 UTC 
If the radeon driver is told that an external monitor exists in the
MonitorLayout option, but one is not attached on startup, it will fall back to
using the default ranges which are an anemic 28-33 horizontal and 43-72
vertical.  Since the default MergedFB setup is clone mode, this will usually
force the panel to some useless non-native resolution like 640x480.

We should assume, in this setup, that any external device that gets attached
will be at least as capable as the panel itself.  This would probably make
cloning onto a "hotplugged" projector more or less just work.
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2006-01-04 08:20:40 UTC 
Created attachment 4231 [details] [review]
radeon-better-lvds-clone-1.patch

Rough hack at the patch, totally untested.  We should probably only do this for
laptops, ie LVDS connection only.

Of course this is just a hack until we really get dynamic mode detection
working.
Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2006-01-04 09:30:11 UTC 
Created attachment 4232 [details] [review]
radeon-better-lvds-clone-2.patch

uh, first one didn't compile.  wtogami claims this one works.
Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2006-01-05 02:36:10 UTC 
he's wrong, too.  looking into it now.
Comment 4 Timo Jyrinki 2007-02-22 02:52:49 UTC 
No updates for over a year. Can this be closed, ajax?
Comment 5 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:29:45 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 6 Timo Jyrinki 2007-06-29 06:47:50 UTC 
Hmm, could you test this with 6.6.192? My similar problem (640x480 resolution) seems to be fixed with it.
Comment 7 Benjamin Close 2008-01-11 02:35:51 UTC 
Bugzilla Upgrade Mass Bug Change

NEEDSINFO state was removed in Bugzilla 3.x, reopening any bugs previously listed as NEEDSINFO.

  - benjsc
    fd.o Wrangler
Comment 8 Alex Deucher 2008-12-02 23:29:10 UTC 
mergedfb replaced with xrandr 1.2 support.  closing.

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