[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Re: Status of radeonfb in 2.5?

[Nicholas W. <nw...@ne...>]

Michel Dänzer wrote:

>> >> B) Does anyone have a painless, yet precise way of
>> >> generating modelines for fb.modes if you are using
>> >> XFree-4.2?  I only ask because the XFree modelines are all
>> >> determined by i2c DDC probing, thus there are none in the
>> >> XF86Config file.
>> > 
>> > If the X driver supports Option "UseFBDev", you should be able to use
>> > fbset with that.
>> > 
>> 
>> Huh?  The problem is that fbset will not work because I need to populate
>> fb.modes with proper mode lines.  So at the moment fbset won't work at
>> all.
> 
> I was thinking of running X with Option "UseFBDev" and getting
> information about the modes with fbset.
> 

Hmm...  I guess that setting doesn't do what I thought it did.  I'll give it 
a shot and see if it works.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Nicholas