kms howto - is there one?

[Felix Miata]

On 2010/03/17 13:46 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 16:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> Used to be able to set vga= on cmdline, and preferred resolution for X via
>> xorg.conf. Now (with no EDID/DDC actually available to report display
>> characteristics to the KMS kernel), how does one escape from 1024x768 in X -
>> prior to starting X? I tried putting PreferredMode in xorg.conf, which failed
>> to provide my selected mode in X. I also tried video="VGA-1:1600x1200 at 60" &
>> vga=0x305 on cmdline. That gave 1600x1200 on tty[1-6], which I don't want,
>> and (again) 1024x768 in X, which also I don't want.
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

With the speed of change in X generally, and Intel drivers in particular, I
was hoping for something (preferably Fedora specific, if Fedora is actually
relevant on the subject) considerably newer than that page's age of 8 months.
Also, it's little less cryptic than the man page, with no example what to do
about --output when there is one and only one output, or finding out what the
output names actually are, or the meaning of <screen> or how to distinguish
it from <display>.
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