Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions about EDID

[G 3]

When I use edid=on, I do see a lot of extra resolutions available in Mac OS
9 and Mac OS X, just not the resolution I want to use. Is there some kind
of rule like the resolution value has to be divisible by a certain number?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:43 AM Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 09:49:22PM -0500, Programmingkid wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 25, 2019, at 10:26 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 09:05:30AM -0500, G 3 wrote:
> > >> Hi Gerd, I was wondering if you have made any documentation for your
> EDID
> > >> patches. If you have could you provide a link please?
> > >
> > > No docs.
> > >
> > >> Also could a feature be added that allows the user to specify
> resolutions
> > >> to be made available to the guest?
> > >>
> > >> Maybe it could work like this: -device
> VGA,edid=on,res=1366x768,7680x4320
> > >
> > > A single resolution works (via xres + yres properties).
> >
> > Could you send an example of the xres and yres properties please?
> > I tried this but it didn't work: -device VGA,edid=on,xres=999,yres=888
>
> That is correct.  But you also need a guest driver with edid support.
>
> I think the macos driver got support for that, for linux support landed
> in the 5.0 devel cycle.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd
>
>