Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:28:36 -0500
Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"X -configure' to see if it generates a working X file that is
substantial enough to prevent the guessing game.
Yea, I suppose it might be possible that if there is a Modules
section, the server won't provide modules on its own. I'll try
that next time I have FC6 booted again.
Of course, I already discovered that no power in the universe
will prevent X from coming up with its own modeline data.
My reading of the source for the radeon driver indicated you
could override the modeline by using the "PanelSize" option,
but apparently that doesn't work. Instead of using my modeline
with a slightly reduced refresh rate (which works on FC5), it
ignores mine and comes up with its own modeline, apparently
designed for a CRT with a clock rate totally out of range.
It sounds like an outrageous concept to adopt. Are they expecting the
code to be self healing? I would figure that there was built-in defaults
but still leaving the ability there to specify your own modes.
I may yet be forced to rebuild all of X just to get it to try
something that probably won't work anyway :-).
I would hope that just rebuilding the driver would suffice. If you end
up with a better version of X, let me know. :-)
Jim
--
The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be
able to correct them.
-- Nicolaides
