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Hello,

On Nov 14, 2006, at 17:15, Marco Trillo wrote:

> On 11/11/06, Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But there is still a problem: although the monitor is set up
>> correctly, the driver thinks it's still running at 640 x 480
>> resolution mode, and so it creates a 640 x 480 display:
>>
>> radeonfb0: display 0: virtual resolution 640x480 at 32 bpp
>> radeonfb0: port 0: physical 1024x768 89Hz
>> radeonfb0: port 1: physical 1024x768 89Hz
>>
>> So it creates a small box of 640 x 480 pixels at the left edge of the
>> screen, and the rest of the 1024 x 768 space is not used (it appears
>> filled with a blue-ish color).
>
> Well, I finally got it working ! (a patch is attached)
>
> 'radeonfb.c' has some checks to pickup a virtual resolution larger
> than the physical resolution, so if there are multiple monitors
> present, the smaller one will use panning.
> But there were some places (like when the default videomode is
> selected) when that check wasn't made.
>
> I tried to fix this, a diff to the 'radeonfb.c' file is attached
> (hopefully Gmail won't base64-encode the patch).
>
> It works fine now for me ! Hope it doesn't break anything !
>
> The relevant dmesg section with the new patch is:
>
> radeonfb_pickres picked 640x480
> radeonfb0: port 0: physical 1024x768 89Hz
> radeonfb0: port 1: physical 1024x768 89Hz
> radeonfb0: display 0: virtual resolution 1024x768 at 32 bpp

Thanks, I'll have a look at it.

have fun
Michael
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