modesetting feature status

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 18 07:36:56 UTC 2008


What about modesetting for proprietary nvidia users ?

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:30 AM, shmuel siegel <fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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