kms howto - is there one?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Mar 17 20:46:09 UTC 2010


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
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