modesetting feature status

[shmuel siegel]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:36 +0200, Joshua C. wrote:
>
>   
>> Dave can you make the radeon driver fall back to vesa in case of a
>> problem? my display disappears after modprobe radeon modeset=1 and if
>> the driver unloads itself, then maybe i can see any error messages on
>> the display.
>>     
>
> Not really.  There's no way to ask the display "hey, that mode I'm
> sending you, does it work?" so it's sort of hard to programmatically
> know when it doesn't work.
>
> - ajax
>   
But a keyboard shortcut that forces a change to the vesa driver would be 
very useful.