From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Emde Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] drm-set-default-noedid-res.patch Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 12:52:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4BF11FDB.4090800@osadl.org> References: <20100516233816.204382607@osadl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from toro.web-alm.net (toro.web-alm.net [62.245.132.31]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CB49E814 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 03:53:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Dave Airlie Cc: DRI List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Dave, >> Some monitors and, more often, kvm switches do not provide working >> EDID data. KMS based X configurations in recent server versions no >> longer allow to override the screen resolution which makes it >> impossible to correctly adapt the screen resolution to the monitor >> in use. This patch allows to define the fallback screen resolution >> to something else than the default 1024x768. > Does video=800x600 not work for you? No, this only sets the tty resolution; the resolution of the X server appears to be limited to the maximum as specified at line 123 in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c: drm_add_modes_noedid(connector, x, y); kernel parameter TTY resolution Max. X resolution - 640x480 1024x768 vga=0x31b 1280x1024 1024x768 video=1280x1024 1280x1024 1024x768 video=1280x1024 vga=0x31b 1280x1024 1024x768 drm.noedidres 1280x1024 1280x1024 drm.noedidres vga=0x31b 1280x1024 1280x1024 X.Org X Server 1.7.6 Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.7.6-4.fc12 Carsten.