Manual and options for the "modesetting" driver

2015-06-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm trying to use the "modesetting" driver for a dual-monitor setup using a displaylink adapter and a Poulsbo card, and where the monitors are rotated and where I only want 16bpp. The only part I managed to get is an output on my Poulsbo-connected monitor, but all the other things I specified in m

Re: Manual and options for the "modesetting" driver

2015-06-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I'm trying to use the "modesetting" driver for a dual-monitor setup >> using a displaylink adapter and a Poulsbo card, and where the monitors >> are rotated and where I only want 16bpp. >> The only part I managed to get is an output on my Poulsbo-connected >> monitor, but all the other things I

Re: Manual and options for the "modesetting" driver

2015-06-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I do > $ xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0 IIUC this is to tell one GPU to render into another card's framebuffer. I don't have any GPUs, I only have framebuffers (well, Poulsbo does include a GPU, but I have no driver for that part). In any case, it fails (and it doesn't solve my gdm-rotati

Re: Manual and options for the "modesetting" driver

2015-06-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> ignored, so: is there a manual somewhere listing the available options > (I've discovered "kmsdev" so far)? Does the lack of response mean that this driver is 100% undocumented? Stefan ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lis

Re: Manual and options for the "modesetting" driver

2015-06-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Which means that : > man modesetting > > should work on most distributions . > > rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man4/modesetting.4.gz > xorg-x11-drv-modesetting-0.9.0-2.fc21.x86_64 Yup, looks like it's a bug in Debian's packaging (which I just reported). Of course, this manpage doesn't mention very m