On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 13:23, Yves Combe wrote: > Le Vendredi 4 Juillet 2003 12:32, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:55, Yves Combe wrote: > > > I am looking for a détection of the modelines in debian. (for the liveCD > > > i work on.) > > Both the radeon and nv drivers in current XFree86 CVS try to handle this > > on their own. Using those, putting > > > > Modes "<console resolution>" > > > > in the XF86Config-4 Display subsection might work in most cases. > > OK, thank you. > The problem is i cannot guess the mode used in advance. Is for a live CD.
fbset will tell you the console resolution, you don't need a mode definition at all. > I found parse-edid ( is in the read-edid i386 source) wich works fine in the > device-tree EDID and gives the preferred mode for the display. That's another solution of course. Is there a bullet-proof way to find the EDID in the OF device tree though? > What is the current status of CVS ?. Could it be usuable insteed of 4.3 now? > I have put the ds's 4.3 in the iso, i am not sure if using a cvs version > could > be a good thing. Well, drivers seem to get patched to CVS HEAD versions routinely in XFree86 packages these days. The radeon driver in my current dri-trunk-sid packages does this for example, don't know if a recent enough nv driver is available in any packages yet. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
