3.19 Nouveau changes fedback

[Josh Boyer]

On Dec 25, 2014 12:42 AM, "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>
> The Nouveau changes in 3.19 fixed one problem I was having (that I didn't
> have when I tested the nVidia driver for comparison), but it doesn't fix
> some resolution limitations I have.
>
> When playing GOG's homm3 via wine I need to use 800x600 to use the full
> screen. When I boot using nouveau the display is 1680x1050 in the desktop.
> (When I booted with the nVidia driver the display used a different
> resolution.) When I go to the display settings most of the common 4:3
> resolutions are supposed to be available, but when I try them the screen
> ends scrambled. This makes 800x600 unusable. As a work around I used
> scaling via xrandr to make make the screen work as 800x600. When combined
> with screen emulation in wine, this almost worked. I had a problem with
> a hang in multiplayer hotseat when using nouveau, but not nVidia. However
> this last problem is now fixed in 3.19.
>
> For the resolution issue should I be filing bugs for Fedora against
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau or would I be better off going upstream?

Either works but upstream is usually better in most cases.  Particularly
right now since you're testing something that isn't available in Fedora
yet.  Thanks for testing.

josh