Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2016-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 30, 2016, at 12:50 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Do I understand correctly that I should put “drm.debug=0xe” as a kernel >> argument at boot time? Then boot, try running my “fbset” test and send you >> the entire output of dmesg

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2016-06-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Do I understand correctly that I should put “drm.debug=0xe” as a kernel argument at boot time? Then boot, try running my “fbset” test and send you the entire output of dmesg including all boot messages. Is this correct? Further, I guess you would prefer to have this on the amd64 machine in que

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2016-06-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > For what it’s worth, I get the same behavior on amd64 running stretch. It’s > not just on powerpc. Great ! Could you please turn more debugging info. eg: drm.debug=0xe and try again. ref: https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-repor

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2015-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: fbset Version: 2.1-28 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Prior to Jessie, I could use "fbset" toset the screen resolution on my PowerPC Macs. This was often necessary if the system happened to mis-guess the actual screen resolution, or the screen wa