Re: display problem with matroxfb

[Petr Vandrovec]

> > you do not have to specify vesa,pixclock,hslen and vslen, as you leave
> > them on defaults. 
> 
> Talking of defaults for matroxfb, would you consider limiting the fv: 
> value default to something reasonable that'll work on all monitors? It
> took me several recompiles/reboots to get a setting that would not put
> my monitor into auto-powerdown. If you defaulted to fv:60 then it 
> would work on 99.9% of monitors and then people could override that 
> upwards. I have a Philips 201B 21" monitor and was using 
> 
> append="video=matrox:vesa:400"
> 
> and this was setting too high a vertical refresh rate for the monitors
> capabilities. Adding fv:85 lets it work. The card is a Matrox 
> Millennium G200 8MB SDRAM.

Are you sure that it did not run out of horizontal sync, or something
like that? vesa:400 == vesa:0x190 == 1152x864/60Hz... And it powers
up in 60Hz, at least here ;-)

See timmings array in drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c - all videomodes
except XXXx400 powerups in fv=60Hz unless you specified fh/fv/pixclock.
XXXx400 powerups with fv=70Hz, like standard VGA does.
						Petr Vandrovec
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