On 2014-08-02 23:01 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan composed:

* Felix Miata composed:

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No manual entry for linuxrc. Where is the documentation for linuxrc to be found?

w3m `locate linuxrc`

w3m is not something I recall ever hearing about before,...

/usr/share/doc/packages/autoyast2/html/appendix.linuxrc.html

...but very nice to know about. That file's autoyast2 owner wasn't installed, so it wasn't there for my mc find file to find. :-p NAICT from going through all of /usr/share/doc/packages/autoyast2/html/, I'm not sure a favorable answer to $SUBJECT is even in there. The Monitor and X11 Configuration section 4.14 includes this: "Since openSUSE 11.2 there is not AutoYaST client for X11 configuration anymore. You can still have the X11 section in your profile but it will be ignored." Even if it still worked, it's an awfully complicated thing to figure out just to acquire legibility. In Anaconda (latest at least), the installer's X mode obeys the cmdline parameter video=, which one would think openSUSE could reasonably do as well. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org

On 2014-08-04 15:00 (GMT+0200) Steffen Winterfeldt composed:

In fact, you currently can't influence the video mode (without a-priory knowledge of the driver that's going to be used).

You mean via cmdline? Cmdline can feed parameters to YaST/linuxrc, correct? Couldn't at least in theory a brief info file be used to provide an EDID override (aka user's personal PreferredMode) for starting X, if not something simpler like xservermode.radeon=1024x768? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

В Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Steffen Winterfeldt пишет:

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In fact, you currently can't influence the video mode (without a-priory knowledge of the driver that's going to be used).

I think this statement need some qualification

a) without KMS it is possible - just select video mode during boot (or explicitly pass vga=...) and X server will respect this setting

b) with KMS it is possible to set Linux console frame buffer video mode using video=NxM option. But the problem here is, X server ignores it and always selects some "best fit" resolution.

So the real question probably is - is it possible to make X server respect currently chosen console resolution? If it is not possible - is it possible to force fbdev X driver during installation?

There is in fact a bug open that the boot loader video mode menu should work again. But it's really not that simple and I've dropped the issue for now. For some nice state-of-the-art mode setting follow Takashi's comments in https://bugzilla.novell.com/853350. Sure, with enough knowledge about the hardware and some kernel parameters you can probably force the mode you like. But - then what? Do you want to keep the mode forced after install or do you trust Xorg? Do you switch to a proprietary driver that maybe needs different options or suddenly just works without any? Do you care about console resolution? There's at least 3 common ways to set your video mode: vesa/uefi fb / kms / xorg. All need to be configured differently. And the little bootloader should provide and easy-to-use shortcut that fits all. :-( Steffen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org