modesetting feature status
shmuel siegel
fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Thu Sep 18 04:30:48 UTC 2008
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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