On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 04:18:08 -0700 > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > The newest kernels have (God knows why) moved the video > > > mode setting into the kernel (the only explanation I've > > > ever seen for why this is a good idea is that the monitor > > > goes "click" less often that way). So all the programming > > > of the hardware specific clock rates and registers on the > > > video card happen in the kernel during initial boot > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/268378/ > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/316274/ > > Actually, there is one really excellent side-effect of kernel > mode setting: The ability to manually override the EDID info > with a kernel boot parameter (figuring out how to use it might > be a different problem :-). This will finally be a single point > where you can lock down a monitor's video setting so the system > will boot right even when the monitor isn't currently connected > via the KVM switch or the monitor itself reports bogus EDID > info. Actually for me the significant "side-effect" (I'd rather call it a consequence) is the promise of being able to avoid user lockout if for some reason the X server freezes. Not sure we're there yet, but in principle it's possible. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
