Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:02:46 -0600
Dale Dellutri wrote:
> Note that I worked around my bug by adding "nomodeset" to the kernel boot
> line.
Nope. If I turn off modesetting, it has even bigger problems. I seem
to recall I couldn't even get X to start the last time I tried it.
The default setting seem to work better than any others, but
the default now crashes 5 or 6 times during the day (was only
about once a week before updates).
What I really would like is to be able to convince the vesa
driver to do 1920x1200 resolution, and just use a nice stable
non-accelerated non-3d driver until the fancy drivers catch
up, but I don't think anyone is interested in developing drivers
that are stable, but can't make windows shake like jello :-).
Agree totally, the Radeon support sucks on every machine I have, and even the
ones which work are slower than the vesa driver. The vesa driver seems usefully
fast, will do video even on an old Celeron.
nomodeset video=vesafb
I don't know what the upper limit of vesa is, but it's higher than 1366x768,
I'm
running my monitor there and at least one more step up was available. Since I
want to be able to read the screen on a 32in monitor, I stopped where I am, and
it runs fine.
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