Re: [Intel-gfx] i810 forgets configured rows & columns on ttys on startx shutdown

2013-10-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-10-29 19:19 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: On 2013-10-29 13:54 (GMT+0100) Daniel Vetter composed: Userspace modesetting is known to be racy and broken, so people don't really want to waste time on digging into bugs which are most likely flukes. But if you can bisect this issue to a

Re: [Intel-gfx] i810 forgets configured rows & columns on ttys on startx shutdown

2013-10-29 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-10-29 13:54 (GMT+0100) Daniel Vetter composed: Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-10-29 09:51 (GMT+0100) Daniel Vetter composed: >Felix Miata wrote: >>Pre-KMS it used to be that common vga= modes were useless, so I took to >>using 0x121 to escape from 80x25 screens. Using 0x8121 require

Re: [Intel-gfx] i810 forgets configured rows & columns on ttys on startx shutdown

2013-10-29 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:00:20AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-10-29 09:51 (GMT+0100) Daniel Vetter composed: > > >Felix Miata wrote: > > >>Pre-KMS it used to be that common vga= modes were useless, so I took to > >>using 0x121 to escape from 80x25 screens. Using 0x8121 required specifyin

Re: [Intel-gfx] i810 forgets configured rows & columns on ttys on startx shutdown

2013-10-29 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-10-29 09:51 (GMT+0100) Daniel Vetter composed: Felix Miata wrote: Pre-KMS it used to be that common vga= modes were useless, so I took to using 0x121 to escape from 80x25 screens. Using 0x8121 required specifying an appropriate font via config file. Even after KMS began, vga=0x8121 co

Re: [Intel-gfx] i810 forgets configured rows & columns on ttys on startx shutdown

2013-10-29 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Pre-KMS it used to be that common vga= modes were useless, so I took to > using 0x121 to escape from 80x25 screens. Using 0x8121 required specifying > an appropriate font via config file. Even after KMS began, vga=0x8121 > continued to work, an

[Intel-gfx] i810 forgets configured rows & columns on ttys on startx shutdown

2013-10-29 Thread Felix Miata
Embedded Dell motherboard/video BIOS has very limited VESA support!!! (F00:80x25=VGA, F01:80x50=VGA, F02:80x43=VGA, F03:80x28=VGA, F05:80x30=VGA, F07:80x60=VGA, 309:132x25=VESA, 30A:132x43=VESA, 30B:132x50=VESA, 30C:132x60=VESA, (8)120:132x25=BIOS, (8)121:132x43=BIOS, (8)122:132x50=BIOS, (8)123