[Maverick] [PATCH 0/4] KMS Disablement for i8xx

[Steven]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:10:11PM -0700, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:52 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> > > Disabling KMS on these cards in Maverick will result in them using the
> > > VESA X driver, which has been reported to work on the various i8xx
> bugs.
>
> It's probably worth noting that a large number of 855 machines have
> native panel resolutions that aren't present in the vesa tables, and so
> won't be able to run in native resolution with the vesa driver.


This has been my experience. When running the vesa driver on Lucid on my
i855, I get:
(EE) VESA: No valid modes.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Then the graphics never load.

-Stenten
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