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| Summary: | only up to 800*600 dpi possible | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Tim Fechtner <timmi> |
| Component: | SaX2 | Assignee: | Marcus Schaefer <ms> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | sndirsch |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | 64bit | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Tim Fechtner
2006-11-10 07:42:40 UTC
Created attachment 104606 [details]
log.tar.bz2 - the hole /var/log as tar.bz2
Created attachment 104607 [details]
hwinfo
sorry I don't understand what your problem is ? X1400 ---> fbdev. Change your framebuffer settings (resolution and color depth) accordingly. There are two problems: 1.) I choose 1280*800 in Sax, but I get only 800*600. 2.) The graphic card has support for two screens (internal LCD of the notebook + external vga port), but Sax lets me configure only the first one (the LCD). The X1400 is fbdev based so if you call sax2 you will get a message pointing out that no color and resolution changes are possible. I checked that it works. - 1280x800 is not a valid kernel framebuffer resolution. You can only use 1024x768 by typing vga=0x318 at the kernel boot prompt for example - dualhead is not supported using the fbdev driver. An accelerated driver is needed to do that. - Stefan according to your suggestion. This problem is solved by not offer the possibility to select a resolution other than the current fbdev resolution. Problem is within yast I don't have a check for the fbdev module... Well, my proposal (enhancement for 10.3!) was to offer only valid framebuffer solutions/color depths you get with "hwinfo --framebuffer" and to write this hex value to menu.lst + inform the user the need to reboot. We had something like this implemented some time ago and it has
been removed for some reasons:
1) fbdev is a temporary solution more like a workaround
2) bootloader configuration is not part of sax
3) people don't understand why they can't setup the resolution
they want for example 1280x800
4) sync setup is not possible at all
5) dualhead setup is not possible at all
---> according to this fbdev is not a business case to me. Every time
people have to use fbdev they are complaining about that they
can't use their prefered resolution or sync ranges or dual-head or
whatever instead of beeing glad that there is something which works
but with restrictions
the conflict to yast2-bootloader was the main issue why it has been
removed from sax
Unfortunately nearly all ATI GPUs are now affected by this problem to use fbdev. :-( Is there no way to adjust the yast2-bootloader? E.g. it could read a meta file written by SaX2 (if it exists), in which the vga hex value is configured? 1) why not use the vesa driver ? 2) good idea you can pass this on as an enhancement to yast2-bootloader (In reply to comment #11) > 1) why not use the vesa driver ? Honestly the fbdev driver works more reliable than the vesa driver. > 2) good idea you can pass this on as an enhancement to yast2-bootloader I can do so. >> 2) good idea you can pass this on as an enhancement to >> yast2-bootloader > I can do so. done. Bug #220368 reopen to close as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 220368 *** |