On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Vassilis Virvilis wrote:

Alex Deucher wrote:

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The reason the savage xorg drver uses the bios is because almost every
panel they connect to the chip seems to require fairly custom timings.
the twisters and prosavages are even worse than the discrete chips.
Also, only the bios seems to know the magic incantation necessary for
dualhead.  I tried for a while to add non-bios mode setting to crtc2
without much luck.

When you say panel what do you mean?
a) The rest of the framebuffer and scan logic resided in CRTC?
b) The screen attached to CRTC?

I believe a) but I would like to know for sure.

panel = LCD panel (in contrast to CRT = Cathode Ray Tube)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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