Robert Swindells wrote: > > [email protected] (MLH) wrote: > >happens and how to prevent it, as well as getting i915drmkms working > >properly. > > The switch to a graphical console is intentional, it is part of the > startup sequence of the new drm drivers. > > The problems you are seeing are because the i2s part of the i915 drm > driver fails to detect either the ROM for the LVDS panel or an > external display. > > I have an eeepc 701 that has the same problem.
The external VGA1 display switches to the graphical console but doesn't pick up any hi-res display modes. X runs but only up to the 1024x768 mode and has a tremendous amount of display overwriting and trash so isn't very usable. I use the eepc for more convenient in-shop testing of QT4-based multi-axis motor controller software I'm developing and was hoping to use a drm i915 display to speed up some of the rendering. > $ xrandr > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 640 x 480, maximum 4096 x 4096 > LVDS1 connected 640x480+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x > 0mm > 640x480 72.81 75.00 59.94* > VGA1 connected 640x480+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x > 324mm > 1024x768 60.00 > 800x600 60.32 56.25 > 848x480 60.00 > 640x480 59.94* With NetBSD 7.99.4 my AMD64/Radeon HD6450 that we discussed a long time ago finally is mostly working now. There is still also a huge amount of display trashing and the occassional coredump/crash but it's at least fairly usable, so progress. Thanks
