On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Tom London <selinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 06:26 -0700, Tom London wrote: >> >>> My @home monitor does not support KMS; I'll retest with my "KMS >>> approved" monitor @work. >> >> Can you clarify this statement? The monitor really shouldn't factor >> into whether KMS works or not. Admittedly there's been some bugs with >> the I2C code in the kernel (turns out KMS is the first serious user of >> it, who knew), but X's mode selection logic is independent of who does >> I2C. >> >> - ajax >> > Sure. > > I've BZ'ed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489987 > > Rough details: I connect my X200 at home with an old Mitsubishi LCD > monitor, and at work with a newer HP LCD monitor. > > System boots fine with HP monitor and KMS (that is, plymouth displays > properly and gdm/X "comes up" fine), but does not with Mistubishi LCD > (plymouth displays properly, but the monitor immediately goes into > "power save" mode and the screen turns black when gdm should be > starting.). > > To make it "work", I need to add "nomodeset nopat" when booting with > Mitsu. monitor. > > I believe the "nopat" was needed to make compiz not display the "white > screen of indifference" > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486375). > > Believe various Xorg.0.log files are attached there. > > I'm eager to help here. Let me know what more I do.... > Realize the "nopat" part may not be clear: I only need to boot with "nopat" if I boot with "nomodeset". When KMS is working, I don't seem to have an issue with pat/nopat. Still eager to help ;-) tom -- Tom London -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
