On Tuesday 05 February 2013 10:28:39 pm Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-02-05 22:10 (GMT-1000) kanenas@hawaii.rr.com composed:
my son just got me a 27" qnix led flat panel, 600 x 340 mm, 2560 x 1440 res. as usual, doze sees the res and does the res. but i like suse:) I have tried fresh dvd, livecd and netinstall of 11.4,12.1,12.2.12.3 in kde3, kde4,xfce, and one time i even tried gnome. The "only" setup that allows my nvidia gt240 card to feed 2560x1440 to the screen is the 12.1 -kde3 livecd, with * only non accellerated* nouveau drivers. ALL other suses default to 1600x1200 once nomodeset is added in grub,
Why do you think you need nomodeset? Nomodeset turns off KMS, which is the only way the most widely used FOSS video drivers, including nouveau, can function.
the nomodeset command was used when there was no screen visible or a garbled screen. As mentioned, the only time the nouveau driver found the true 2560x1440 resolution was with the kde3-suse 12.1 live-cd. that os is installed. This email is being sent from that system. right now I am *not* using nomodeset. but trying to run google-earth on the nouveau driver is like pouring molasses in Alaska in February:) trying the accellerated nouveau also fails, the propriatory nvidia drivers fail as well, that's with kms disabled and nouveau blacklisted. so i need to find just what the current settings are and then I must try to transfer them to either the accellerated nouveau driver or the nvidia driver. <clip>
With nomodeset on cmdline you're not using nouveau. It's the VESA driver that's well known to be slow, and limited in available resolutions among which are not included widescreen modes much less high density modes.
well, nvidia defaults to fb, that much i know, don't know what nouveau does, but, as stated above, that is not the issue. i am not using nomodeset right now.
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