Bug 89820 – 915resolution-O.1.ebuild (new package)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Benoît "UBIK" Collet-Billon 2005-04-20 08:22:44 UTC]

915resolution is a programm adapted from 855resolution (by Alain Poirier: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/) that allows to patch i915 video cards VBIOS in order to access non-standard video modes (1400x1050, 1280x800 etc.).

Even if i915 based cards get better support in next versions of xorg, this tool will still be useful because intel cards seems to be limited using the vbios for mode setting in xorg.

The following files are attached:
-915resolution-0.1.ebuild (version number doesn't mean anything)
-a config file to set the modes that will be patched
-an init script

Many thanks to the following persons:
-Alain Poirier for the initial work on 855resolution
-Stomljen for having reworked this tool for i915 cards
-Gard Spreemann who wrote 855's ebuild, conf file and init script (i just changed names to adapt them for i915)

[Comment 1 Benoît "UBIK" Collet-Billon 2005-04-20 08:24:38 UTC]

Created attachment 56759 [details]
915resolution-0.1.ebuild

[Comment 2 Benoît "UBIK" Collet-Billon 2005-04-20 08:25:53 UTC]

Created attachment 56760 [details]
conf.d file

to be saved as "$FILES/conf.d"

[Comment 3 Benoît "UBIK" Collet-Billon 2005-04-20 08:26:46 UTC]

Created attachment 56761 [details]
init script

to be saved as "$FILES/init.d"

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-04-20 16:40:03 UTC]

Anyone in the x11 herd interested in maintaining this?

[Comment 5 Marko Djukic 2005-06-12 00:57:21 UTC]

Created attachment 61096 [details]
Build update and fixes

This is is an updated ebuild, references the 0.3 version of the source, and
some minor text/formatting fixes in the ebuild itself.

[Comment 6 Benoît "UBIK" Collet-Billon 2005-06-24 10:32:47 UTC]

Created attachment 61854 [details]
915resolution-0.4.ebuild

Version 0.4
and some good news from the author's site:
"915resolution is going to be incorporated into the i810 driver in the X server
from X.org. It should be in an upcoming release. This will void the need to run
915resolution manually..."

[Comment 7 julius junghans 2005-07-08 20:56:33 UTC]

ebuild 0.4 does not seem to work:

>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-misc/915resolution-0.4 to /
>>> md5 files   ;-) 915resolution-0.4.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-915resolution-0.4
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) 915resolution-0.4.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking 915resolution-0.4.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/915resolution-0.4/work
>>> Source unpacked.
make: 

[Comment 8 julius junghans 2005-07-08 20:56:33 UTC]

ebuild 0.4 does not seem to work:

>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-misc/915resolution-0.4 to /
>>> md5 files   ;-) 915resolution-0.4.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-915resolution-0.4
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) 915resolution-0.4.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking 915resolution-0.4.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/915resolution-0.4/work
>>> Source unpacked.
make: »915resolution« ist bereits aktualisiert.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-misc/915resolution-0.4

>>> Install 915resolution-0.4 into /var/tmp/portage/915resolution-0.4/image/
category app-misc
cp: Aufruf von stat für
/usr/local/overlays/local/app-misc/915resolution/files//conf.d nicht möglich:
Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
install: Aufruf von stat für
/var/tmp/portage/915resolution-0.4/temp/915resolution nicht möglich: Datei
oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
cp: Aufruf von stat für
/usr/local/overlays/local/app-misc/915resolution/files//init.d nicht möglich:
Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
install: Aufruf von stat für
/var/tmp/portage/915resolution-0.4/temp/915resolution nicht möglich: Datei
oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
man:
prepallstrip:
strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded
strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded
   usr/sbin/915resolution
>>> Completed installing 915resolution-0.4 into
/var/tmp/portage/915resolution-0.4/image/

[Comment 9 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-08-03 16:47:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)

> and some good news from the author's site:

Do you have any idea when this will happen?  There's no point in adding this to
the tree if we're only going to remove it a month later.

[Comment 10 Jiri Tyr 2005-10-13 08:37:16 UTC]

Created attachment 70567 [details]
915resolution-0.4.7.ebuild

New version: 915resolution-0.4.7

[Comment 11 Saleem Abdulrasool (RETIRED) 2005-10-13 15:20:48 UTC]

The support for the 915 chipset is included in the latest version of
815resolution which is in portage.  Closing as such.

[Comment 12 Maximilian Michel 2006-05-17 00:15:17 UTC]

But the problem is, that 915resolution also supports the new 945XX graphic bioses, which are not supported by 855resolution.


(In reply to comment #10)
> The support for the 915 chipset is included in the latest version of
> 815resolution which is in portage.  Closing as such.

[Comment 13 Gentoo613 2006-07-06 02:02:20 UTC]

Created attachment 91029 [details]
915resolution-0.5.2.ebuild

[Comment 14 Tobia Zorzan 2006-12-16 16:34:08 UTC]

I've got an amd64 profile (Core Duo 2 Macbook), can i try to use this ebuild without messing up my video cards?

Thanks

[Comment 15 Benoît "UBIK" Collet-Billon 2006-12-17 04:10:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #13)
> I've got an amd64 profile (Core Duo 2 Macbook), can i try to use this ebuild
> without messing up my video cards?

Hi, you'd better use portage's ebuild which contains more up-to-date conf and init files. You won't "break" your card since it's only a soft-modification of videos modes: if it fails, a reboot will bring everything back in palce.

[Comment 16 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-12-26 06:49:23 UTC]

Reopen to resolve properly.

[Comment 17 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-12-26 06:49:52 UTC]

Been in the tree for quite some time.

  22 Jul 2006; Patrick McLean <[e-mail]> ChangeLog:
  Initial revision.