modeset on/off changes xrandr output

[Mary Ellen Foster]

2009/5/12 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>:
Thanks for your informative response!

> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 10:08 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>> - Outputs have different names:
>>   - modeset: VGA1, LVDS1, DVI{1,2}, TV1
>>   - nomodeset: VGA, LVDS, HDMI-{1,2}, TV

> This is a bug, we should be getting the names the same between KMS and
> UMS.  It's pretty much cosmetic though, IIRC Gnome will remember output
> configuration based on the EDID of the attached device and not the
> output name, so it shouldn't matter.

But xorg.conf-based configuration still uses the output names as far
as I can tell (and the KDE randr tool doesn't seem to work very well
at all ...). Should I file this as a bug?

>> - Available resolutions and refresh rates are different, with many
>> more available with nomodeset
>>   - e.g., LVDS has only 1920x1200 with modesetting, but six further
>> resolutions with nomodeset
>
> This is a bug, but one that's at least fix-in-progress.

Is there a bug number (Redhat/FreeDesktop/whatever) that I can track this under?

Thanks,

MEF

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