On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 17:35 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/03/17 13:46 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > 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@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 > > With the speed of change in X generally, and Intel drivers in particular, I > was hoping for something (preferably Fedora specific, if Fedora is actually > relevant on the subject) No, the changes all happen in upstream X. There's nothing distro-specific here. > considerably newer than that page's age of 8 months. There hasn't been any significant change to the syntax since the change documented on that page, which was the introduction of RandR 1.2. The information on there is still valid. > Also, it's little less cryptic than the man page, with no example what to do > about --output when there is one and only one output, Specify that output. > or finding out what the > output names actually are Just plain 'xrandr' will tell you. > , or the meaning of <screen> or how to distinguish > it from <display>. Not quite sure off the top of my head, but you should be able to get it working. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
