Stephan Aßmus<superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
On 10.05.2011 09:20, Axel Dörfler wrote:
Alex von Gluck<kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Radeon HD cards seem to inject the preferred mode lines of
the active monitor into their VESA EDID (the vesa driver doesn't
pick it up because it compares the found monitor timings to the VESA
acceptable ones)
That's just how EDID works, and it's actually the monitor which reports it
-- that's exactly what it was made for :-)
VESA doesn't support arbitrary mode lines which is why EDID doesn't always
help in choosing the right correct resolution.
Hm, from your reply I don't know if you maybe misunderstand Alexander.
He is saying that the monitor's preferred mode ends up in the VESA mode
list, but it is still not picked by our VESA driver.
I'm not sure how you can know what Alex really intended to say (that should
probably be left to him ;-)), but that's not what he wrote: EDID != mode list,
EDID is what comes from the monitor, the mode list is what comes from the card.
However, I have
also observed that Haiku did not boot in 1920x1080 when I hooked it up
to my TV via HDMI. Maybe I fell victim to the same shortcomming in our
VESA driver and it could have actually worked?
That can only be answered if you provide the EDID output of that monitor, as
well as the mode list the VESA driver retrieves from your card. In any case,
it's unlikely that this is a driver issue.
