From: Mike Isely <isely@isely.net>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Manual control of LVDS pixel formats and dual channel mode
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:44:59 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1104131543520.1821@cnc.isely.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bdc18$k6v1gd@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com>
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:27:18 -0500 (CDT), Mike Isely <isely@isely.net> wrote:
> > Keep in mind that if the probe action is returning wrong results, that's
> > worse than no results. This isn't a question about "supplying missing
> > data" so much as it a case of "overriding bad data". Without that fixed
> > mode disabling ability, it is very possible that the panel will simply
> > be set up wrong with a corrupted display, with no possible means for the
> > user to repair the problem. That's what led me to make the change, and
> > that same change had been living peacefully in the userspace xorg
> > driver, up until the point that UMS had been removed from it. Right now
> > without the ability to disable fixed mode there simply *is no*
> > workaround.
>
> Point taken. If we can't get a resolution on i915.lvds_fixed_mode= within
> the next week, let's focus on the workaround instead.
> -Chris
Sounds good.
The remaining updated patches look good as well.
-Mike
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 13:58 [PATCH 2/3] [drm/i915] - Implement ability to disabled LVDS fixed mode Mike Isely
2011-04-12 23:00 ` Manual control of LVDS pixel formats and dual channel mode Chris Wilson
2011-04-12 23:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Implement direct support for 24 bit LVDS pixel format Chris Wilson
2011-04-12 23:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Implement manual override of LVDS single/dual channel mode Chris Wilson
2011-04-13 7:27 ` Manual control of LVDS pixel formats and dual " Mike Isely
2011-04-13 7:42 ` Chris Wilson
2011-04-13 20:44 ` Mike Isely [this message]
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