Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Egbert Eich <eich@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 06:06:08PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Now that my Factory is using (32 bit) 2.6.32-desktop, apparently using KMS by
> default, my i845G consoles, after starting in their usual vga=0x305 1024x768
> mode, jump into some lowfi mode that is or approximates 640x480. I get same

I assume it's 800x600.

> result with i915.modeset=1. No man pages for randr, framebuffer or kms, and
> man page for kernel does not address kms. Nomodeset on the kernel line makes
> consoles behave OK, but X cannot find any screens with a usable configuration
> (no kernel modesetting driver detected). How do I keep whatever benefits I'm
> supposed to get from KMS and yet initialize tty[1-6] back the way I'm used
> to, and have them stay that way, or can I? Is KMS broken for older Intel
> chips? (currently I have X starting @ 1600x1200x16bpp)

No, I've been using it on older chips and it works fine.
Could there be a problem with DDC readout? Either on your monitor or
the cable might be bad.

You could make a bugzilla entry which can be passed on to Intel.

> Note, it seems pae kernel does not yet have KMS. If I boot it instead,
> vga=0x305 works as before, but X cannot find any screens. With desktop
> kernel, i915.modeset=0 on kernel line causes same behavior as pae kernel.
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Search?search=kms&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Go got me
> only 4 hits, none of which seem to be docs in an expected form, but did point
> me to Eich's KMS announcement post on this list, where I found we using
> openSUSE are to use nomodeset instead of nokms like with other distros' KMS
> kernels.

I don't know what you are talking about. There are other distros which
use nomodeset.

Cheers,
        Egbert.

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