Bradley wrote, On 06/27/2009 06:16 AM:
On 06/26/2009 02:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:15:07 -0500
> Bradley wrote:
>
>
>> *This means that /Xorg/ is WRONG! *Now, how do I force /Xorg/ to accept
>> the proposed display setting?
>>
>
> If you want to play the game, you'd have to download the source
> rpm for the sis driver and look for the place it prints
> the "illegal horizontal timings" message and see what data
> it is really checking and where that came from and maybe find
> some place that can influence it - loads of fun if you have
> nothing better to do :-).
>
> Short of that there might actually be a sis man page that
> describes options you can set in xorg.conf to tell the driver
> things (like maybe ignore what you imagine to be the horizontal
> timing limit).
Ugh! My wife won't like to hear about me spending my time on that. But,
if I don't have any other choice....
Bradley
Another option might be submitting a bugzilla entry against Xorg to inform the
developers that X has and should work with these settings, and thus Xorg has a
bug.
They might already know which line to change. :)
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter