From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Forcing display size on Pi4
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:18:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22799CF4-8633-4390-81CF-F7999D746F98@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ccf05f7fc6869e9af651de3e44505b6f@hamnavoe.com>
> On Dec 17, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a 2K display that Plan9 forces to 1920x1080 resolution.
>> Poking around 9/bcm/screen.c indicates that setting vgasize=WxHxD
>> should force the size, but adding a suitable entry in cmdline.txt
>> just gives me a blank display.
>>
>> Before I dig deeper, is this expected to work?
>
> Possibly not. I haven't tried vgasize= for years and there have been a
> lot of changes to the firmware & videocore mailbox interface since then.
>
> Plan 9 should accept whatever resolution comes from the gpu, so it
> may be the firmware which "forces" 1920x1080. Maybe gpu_mem needs
> to be bigger than the usual 16, or some other config.txt adjustment
> is needed?
I was able run earlier pis with a 4K@30Hz display but haven't tried this
with pi4. I had to use some custom parameters.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/hdmi-config.md
says to use hdmi_enable_4kp60=1 in config.txt if you have a 4k@60hz display.
You can choose custom modes as well. There is a config_hdmi_boost parameter
to increase HDMI drive strength but this doesn't work for pi4.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-17 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-17 21:05 Lyndon Nerenberg
2019-12-17 21:31 ` [9fans] " Richard Miller
2019-12-17 23:18 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2019-12-18 0:13 ` hiro
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