On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:10:42 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger
As the final release of openSuSE 11.3 is impending I would like to see graphics modesetting work. It will deter us a lot of users if Xorg can not enter graphics mode: unexperienced users are not capable of resolving such an issue. The mainline strategy I have followed lately is to keep UMS (user mode setting) still work for a while which would require FreeDesktop Bug 34544 to be resolved (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34544). However this does already require setting appropriate kernel options (nomodeset, radeon.modeset=0).
If you have an ATI graphics card please tell me your card model (f.i. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2700) and whether Xorg has problems initializing graphics mode. Thereby I hope to be able to infringe the problem to devise a new solution strategy; note: you must use the radeon display driver (as used by default) for testing KMS (kernel mode setting) - radeonhd and fglrx support UMS. Also write me your kernel version as returned by 'uname -r'.
If you should only experience problems with some monitors this may be due to the EDID (extended display identification record) as to be found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Then you can try to connect via an alternative connector (HDMI, DVI, VGA: all returning different EDIDs) or try to apply one of the two kernel patches supplied by Alex Deucher in this regard (perhaps you will see them in the final release). I plan to post additional information on deploying kernel patches and making commit requests at qa.elstel.com (This time simply use 'git apply --ignore-whitespaces xy.patch' on the kernel.src.rpm); see the thread at: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/process_bug.cgi to obtain the patches.
If we all test it with RC2 then we will have comparable test results: very important as things with KMS have kept changing gradually since os11.2!
Best Wishes & Thanks, Elmar
P.S.: the links to the RC2 pre-release as already supplied by coolo: http://mirror.zq1.de/opensuse/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/
http://mirror.zq1.de/opensuse/factory/iso/openSUSE-DVD-i586-Build0002-Media....
http://mirror.zq1.de/opensuse/factory/iso/openSUSE-DVD-x86_64-Build0002-Medi...
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