Re: i810 only partially usable

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

On 2013-09-23 09:22 (GMT+0100) Chris Wilson composed:

> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:45:57PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> 82810E DC-133 (GMCH)(rev 03)
...
>> *************************
>> Not good (openSUSE 12.2):
>> glamor-0.4.1-2.2.2
>> kernel-desktop-3.4.47-2.38
>> libdrm2-2.4.33-2.47.33-2.3.2
>> libdrm_intel1-2.4.33-2.47.33-2.3.2
>> (no Plymouth)
>> xf86-video-intel-2.20.3-1.8.1
>> xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-2.9.1-22.1.2
>> xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.12.3-1.9.1 (server 1.12.3)

>> highest (& initial) video mode available according to xrandr and
>> krandrtray: 1280x1024

>> PreferredMode is apparently ignored.

> Broken by

> commit 7bb653bedceb6180a0361ead1c612839e776ce98
> Author: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 18 15:59:35 2010 -0400

>      modes: improve aspect ratio match for classic drivers

> which filters the modes reported by the EDID to the largest builtin
> mode.

> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Mode.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Mode.c
> index 706ab64..2a11590 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Mode.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Mode.c
> @@ -1869,10 +1869,10 @@ xf86ValidateModes(ScrnInfoPtr scrp, DisplayModePtr availModes,
>           }
>           if (vx < virtX || vy < virtY) {
>               const int types[] = {
> -                M_T_BUILTIN | M_T_PREFERRED,
> -                M_T_BUILTIN,
>                   M_T_DRIVER | M_T_PREFERRED,
>                   M_T_DRIVER,
> +                M_T_BUILTIN | M_T_PREFERRED,
> +                M_T_BUILTIN,
>                   0
>               };
>               const int ntypes = sizeof(types) / sizeof(int);

> Should restore the intent back to

> commit 81ef1b6d6063c20db4963abf7b7848e235aa4ebb
> Author: Adam Jackson <ajax@benzedrine.nwnk.net>
> Date:   Thu Sep 14 19:18:58 2006 -0400

>      Mark EDID modes as driver modes.  Infer virtual size from driver modes.

I don't know what to make of your response. I don't build packages. My i810 
box is used only for seeking out and reporting regressions such as this. I'm 
puzzled how I missed this for so long, although part of why is probably 
attributable to loss of sysvinit causing me to have skipped over the openSUSE 
12.3 development process with this machine. It's plenty slow, a 1GHz 
Coppermine with PC100 RAM, so I don't boot it much.

Did Adam already fix this? Will you be including this among your next 
submits? Do I need to file a bug first?

>> vttys are stable only as long as X never started, regardless whether
>> video= and/or vga= are present on cmdline. Only way I've found so
>> far to make them work reliably again once X is started is to reboot.
>> With various combinations of X running or not and video= and/or vga=
>> used, vttys get scrambled in various ways (font mismatched to row
>> and/or column counts of active mode).
>> While X is running but a vtty is active, X/KDE3 may abort spontaneously.

> That sounds like the dangers inherent in UMS.

The whole paragraph? The last line only? Suggestions how to cope? I'm not 
including nomodeset on any of my cmdlines. AFAIK, only my MGA systems are not 
using KMS.

> The biggest change here is the loss of XAA in Xorg.

This too says nothing I understand. Referring to XAA or EXA or the like has 
no meaning to me. I'm not a programmer. I just test what others package, and 
get frustrated by comments like this one: 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66462#c10
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