[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 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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
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