Re: [fedora-arm] Setting resolution of text mode on Pandaboard´s HDMI port ?

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:
>
> > What does xrandr report the display supports. You should be able to
> > set it from there.
> >
> > I would honestly look at the F18 alpha release, I think you might do
> > better there.
> >
>
>  Thanks for the suggestion. Will try F18 next.
>
>  I´m new with ARM embedded boards. I guess my question could be rephrased
>  as "is there anything like a BIOS in the Pandaboard where the default mode
>  at boot for its HDMI port could be set?".
>  
Nope.


>  I mean... like on some notebooks or netbooks you could go into the
> bios
>  and select vga output, internal LCD, or both. That was stored on CMOS
>  memory. On embedded ARM boards is there such a nonvolatile memory space to
>  store default video settings at init time before OS loads? 

HDMI is a digital interface, it doesn't understand VGA. Have you tried the
DVI port? What output does xrandr give?

Peter