On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:33:50 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 00:16:27 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > Important update: after the upgrades I performed on last Sunday, the > > behavior of my box significantly changed. > > From last Monday on, during each boot, the screen briefly blanks and > > the console resolution is switched to the LCD monitor's optimal one > > (1280x1024, in my case). I suspect that the console is switched to a > > framebuffer one. > > After that, I no longer have any problems with 'toilet -f future' > > symbols, before or after running X. > > > > This is great, except that I would like to have a console with the > > default resolution (the one I get during and just after the POST, > > 640x480, I think). > > Correct, you get a fb provided by the i915 kms driver.
Good. > > > I never said I wanted a 1280x1024 console! [...] > > OK, so now the problem is: if what I said above is correct and I am > > really using a framebuffer console, I may be OK with it, but... how can > > I prevent it from changing the resolution during the boot sequence? > > > You can blacklist the i915 module. But then you have to use the vesa X > driver, because the accelerated intel driver relies on kms. > > > I would like to have 640x480 (i.e.: the default resolution during POST, > > GRUB, and just at the beginning of the boot sequence) for the console > > and, of course, leave 1280x1024 (the LCD monitor's optimal resolution) > > for X. I probably failed to clearly explain what I want to do. I am perfectly fine with having a framebuffer console, with the i915 kernel module (since I want to get accelerated Intel graphics in X), and kernel mode setting. It's just that I would like to have a 640x480 framebuffer console, not a 1280x1024 one! Are you saying that I cannot choose the screen resolution for a framebuffer console with KMS?!? This would look like a regression with respect to the old times of "traditional" console, where I could get a low resolution console and whatever higher resolution in X I liked... Julien, could you please clarify? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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