-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-08-12 a las 17:13 -0400, Felix Miata escribió:
On 2013-08-11 22:19 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
I tested Puppy Wary 5.2 - it works fine. It detects the video card but not the monitor, so I select from a list: 1024x768x16 h31.5-49,5v56-72. This works, fills the entire screen. I don't know if it is the maximum resolution, the documentation does not say (only that is TFT 14"??? (N618) or 15" (N619-N620) XGA.
IIRC, 5.2's 2.6.33 was the last kernel version without having KMS built in by default. Given why that distro exists, it's pretty safe to assume it had no KMS.
I suppose so.
Therefore, comparing its video behavior to anything newer is little more than a does it work or doesn't it exercise, with nothing to be learned regarding getting anything newer working properly.
It shows that the hardware is capable :-) If it worked with older linux software, it should also work with recent software.
Without KMS (e.g. in conjuction with nomodeset, or using pre-2.6.34 kernels), vga= works as it always had. With KMS, for what vga= did for framebuffer ttys previously, one needs video= instead. Compare the two's descriptions in kernel-parameters.txt.
But "video" does not work, and "vga" does. And lsmod shows that drm, i915, drm_kms_helper, are loaded. Xorg log says kms is in use. I don't have 'nomodeset' as boot parameter. The display runs at 1024x768x60, I think. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlIJew8ACgkQja8UbcUWM1yftAD/UNqO5ipzi3OeZSTdV8Ko9pnf 2kJRgsu/FMFEAiYOQDgA/3C/yr2/bh51VlXRErrHf83MyqYdQotoOTEuT0fveN5C =waPH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----