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)
Created attachment 56759 [details] 915resolution-0.1.ebuild
Created attachment 56760 [details] conf.d file to be saved as "$FILES/conf.d"
Created attachment 56761 [details] init script to be saved as "$FILES/init.d"
Anyone in the x11 herd interested in maintaining this?
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.
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..."
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:
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/
(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.
Created attachment 70567 [details] 915resolution-0.4.7.ebuild New version: 915resolution-0.4.7
The support for the 915 chipset is included in the latest version of 815resolution which is in portage. Closing as such.
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.
Created attachment 91029 [details] 915resolution-0.5.2.ebuild
I've got an amd64 profile (Core Duo 2 Macbook), can i try to use this ebuild without messing up my video cards? Thanks
(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.
Reopen to resolve properly.
Been in the tree for quite some time. 22 Jul 2006; Patrick McLean <chutzpah@gentoo.org> ChangeLog: Initial revision.