modesetting feature status

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Sep 17 20:39:37 UTC 2008


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
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