On 2013-08-13 02:17 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
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.
Response to vga= and absence of response to video= makes it clear.
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.
That's the theory. Tell it to people who bought hardware last century. As I said upthread, the 845G has been, and remains, particularly problematic: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc=845g&query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr
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,
Can't without KMS.
and "vga" does. And lsmod shows that drm, i915, drm_kms_helper, are loaded.
Still running Wary 5.2's 2.6.33? In 12.3, of course it would, absent nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 on cmdline. My same 845G machine's loaded modules booted to: openSUSE 11.2 kernel-desktop 2.6.31 - no kms http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/gx260-os112-modules2631-201104.txt Mandriva 2010.2 desktop kernel 2.6.33 - no kms http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/gx260-mdv20102-modules2633-201009.txt openSUSE 11.3 kernel-desktop 2.6.34 - kms yes http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/gx260-os113-modules2634-201012.txt
Xorg log says kms is in use.
Xorg.0.log running 2.6.33 kernel? That doesn't sound right for a distro intended for old hardware. KMS was in testing in the 2.6.33 period, so might have been reported to apply by mistake via Xorg or driver bug.
I don't have 'nomodeset' as boot parameter.
Wouldn't matter running kernel without KMS. With it you'd be using FBDEV or VESA instead of Intel video driver, and S L O W E R than the unspeedy 845G running Intel driver.
The display runs at 1024x768x60, I think.
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