https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675793 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675793#c0 Summary: KMS broke traditional framebuffer modes Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: x86 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: mrmazda@earthlink.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- I think this has been going on since KMS went into 11.3M3 or so a year ago, but since I've been using mostly displays with missing/invalid EDID, I hadn't noticed. Pre-KMS one would normally one set e.g. vga=791 or vga=0x31a in order to get appropriate sizes of font, rows and columns on the virtual consoles, and use xorg.conf to configure the most appropriate mode for X. Now that I've added a display with valid EDID to my repertoire, I cannot achieve desired console configuration with these legacy framebuffer modes. That is, I want 0x305/791/0x317 on my consoles, which happen to be 1024x768 modes, but I want X to run in the display's best native mode, which is unlikely to be 1024x768 on currently available desktop displays, and also unlikely on any but the tiniest of laptops (aka netbooks). In the instant case of a UXGA (1600x1200) display, vga=791 (with splash=verbose and no quiet) on cmdline only produces 1024x768 on tty1 briefly, then KMS switches to a 1600x1200 mode. IOW, the switch that happens constitutes brokenness, as opposed to making this bug a new feature request. What does produce expected results, that is, 1024x768 on the ttys and 1600x1200 in X (via autoconfig aka no xorg.conf file), is to put video=1024x768 on cmdline instead of any of the vga modes in YaST's "Vga Mode" select list. YaST Bootloader needs to augment or supplant the available legacy framebuffer modes with selections using the KMS syntax. Probably the title "Vga Mode" should be changed somehow, possibly to "Virtual Console Video Mode", since what vga or video parameter on cmdline appears doesn't affect X at all, at least not when EDID is valid. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.