2009/12/4 Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de>:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:27:58PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/12/03 14:38 (GMT+0100) Egbert Eich composed:
DDC tells the 'preferred mode' and KMS will try to set it on startup. This should prevent you from ever having to switch modes.
Nvidia GS8300 was fairly recent card DX 10 card (2 years old) which did not pass DDC info through. I presume KMS will help with that sort of situation with an auto-configure X, because on boot you can tell the kernel what mode to use and hopefully that selection will be respected by X. At the moment, the auto-configure might annoy the user by choosing non-ideal mode.
However there is nothing in KMS that prevents you from switching modes. I'm not sure if you can have different resolutions on different virtual text consoles (or if chaning it for one console it will change it for all) but if you run X for example it will be able to set a different resolution than your text console. There is nothing in the design of KMS that would prevent this.
Isn't the point, that when the same mode is used for virtual console & X, that you avoid flicker & unecessary re-setting modes when they have not changed. Instead of kernel and X changing modes, the kernel has full responsibility rather than sharing it with user space. So KMS has to support the X RandR resolution mode changes offered by user-space tools. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org