[Savage40] Thinkpad T23 and external monitor 1680x1050

[Gianluca Interlandi]

> There is some code to manually program the mode ...

Do you mean xmode? Or is there some other code?

Thanks,

     Gianluca


On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:

> 
> --- Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have a Thinkpad T23 with SuSE linux 10.0. Does anybody know whether
> > I 
> > might be able to attach it to an external 20'' wide screen LCD with a
> > 
> > resolution of 1680x1050 and run it at the full native resolution of
> > the 
> > monitor? I don't need dual head, just the external monitor.
> > 
> > I know that the S3 savage card should theoretically deliver a maximal
> > 
> > resolution of 1600x1200 but what about 1680x1050?
> > 
> > I'm running xorg-x11-6.8.2 and savage-20050718.
> > 
> 
> It won't work unless your bios contains support for the 1680x1050 mode
> which it probably doesn't.  By default the savage driver uses the bios
> to set modes.  There is some code to manually program the mode which
> might work if the you've disabled the panel or booted with the lid
> closed.  I have plans to add full non-bios mode setting support (and
> even randr-1.2 support), but I don't know when I'll get to it.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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