[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Core Solo as FE/BE Combo?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 14 May 2007 13:44:11 Brian Schott wrote:
> Actually, I'm using the magic intel driver but no joy.  It works
> great if the LCD is reporting the correct information on EDID, but a
> number of DVI interfaces don't provide the correct resolution (report
> WXGA instead). The best I can get from a mac mini on my Sharp Aquos
> (1368x768 native) is 1280x768.

Tried building a custom 1366x768 modeline and forcing it to that?


> On May 9, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 11:49:49 Remco Treffkorn wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> /me wonders why people keep using the crappy old i810 driver
> >>> instead of
> >>> the new hotness intel driver... :)
> >>>
> >>> The xorg.conf file for my mini is about as bare-bones as is
> >>> possible, and
> >>> Just Works at 1920x1080p w/the intel driver, and produces flawless
> >>> playback of all content now. (last niggle was that I needed to
> >>> enable
> >>> extra audio buffering to make stuff off Fox play back smoothly).
> >>
> >> Drool!
> >>
> >> Where to get this magic Intel driver? Is there any decent
> >> documentation on
> >> how to install it? Might there even be an RPM ?
> >
> > $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
> > xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.0.0-2.fc7
> >
> > In other words, its part of the xorg-x11-drv-i810 RPM in Fedora 7.
> > An earlier
> > version is also shipped in the xorg-x11-drv-i810 packages for RHEL5
> > and
> > Fedora Core 6. Can't say for sure if its shipped or not in any
> > other distro.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com