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Message-Id: <200901121359.40158.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:59:39 -0800
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Jan Dittmer <jdi@....org>,
Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eric.anholt@...tel.com,
airlied@...ux.ie
Subject: Re: intel kms "Failed to allocate space for kernel memory manager"
On Monday, January 12, 2009 1:32 pm Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:53:49AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On the contrary, I think we have way too many options and configuration
> > possibilities. The more we have, the more likely some combination of
> > them will be broken.
>
> You need to be able to fix wrong data coming from the bios or other roms.
>
> > That said, modes are generally pretty easy to handle, so users can
> > provide them through xrandr and xorg.conf; I don't see that changing.
>
> The intel driver ignores modelines if a bios mode is present, at least
> for lvds. Check i830_lvds_mode_fixup.
We have an LVDSFixedMode option though; afaik it should allow you to override
any VBT info. If not you should file a bug.
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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