Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (333 mails)

[Luc Verhaegen <libv@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:47:29PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Is the LVDS problem HDMI related, or does it make problems on the Sony
> TV anyway?

A problem with the LVDS (TMDSB) output and this TV. Sadly, i had to 
return the TV, because people were complaining about not being able to 
play the wii.
 
> > About the options: three things there...
> >
> > * we might want to get rid of the audio option altogether. The other 
> > option takes care of this already. And we might want to load the basic 
> > infrastructure anyway.
> These option wasn't used for so much anyway, i just wanted to have a
> global switch to turn everything off in case of a problem. I think we
> can remove this if there are no regressions related to this patch.

Ok :)
 
> > * we might want to match the connector names with the connector names 
> > (without analog/digital), as reported by xrandr.
> That was my intention anyway, but after the discussion about xrandr
> connector names started i didn't want do stick my nose into code
> properly changing in the near future.

Just go ahead, and change when the naming actually changes.

> > * we might want to make audio on/off output specific attributes that
> > can also be set/unset through xrandr.
> That's something i also had in mind,

Ok :)

> and there are other options in the
> HDMI info packets that are quite interesting, like colormetry (you can
> set the black/white reference value) or aspect ratio (some DLP
> Projectors can actually switch between 16:9,4:3 and 9:16,3:4 without
> loss of luminescence and my TV switches between 16:9 and 4:3 when i set
> this option by adding black borders).
>
> I will keep working on this in the near future. And by the way is
> anybody else working on EEDID support? I know this really doesn't belong
> into radeonhd, but since x server 1.5.0 we have the raw EEDID data right
> in front of us, with no help from x to decode this.

We can always go and talk to i2c directly and read things out 
immediately.

> PS: Since my last convincement worked so good: Getting the 3D/xvideo
> support released would really make a difference between the radeonhd and
> radeon driver :)

Well, do you have the code sitting around ready and waiting like last 
time? :p

Luc Verhaegen

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