[Intel-gfx] i810 only partially usable

[Felix Miata]

82810E DC-133 (GMCH)(rev 03)

Everything seems to be OK with these (openSUSE 12.1):
glamor (no such package)
kernel-desktop-3.1.10-1.29
libdrm-2.4.26-15.1.2
(no Plymouth)
xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-2.9.1-13.1.2
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.10.4-36.9.2 (server 1.9.3)

1600x1200 (which happens to be the EDID preferred mode) as specified via 
PreferredMode works.

vga=8121 on cmdline works as expected on the vttys (no material BIOS VESA 
support available).

http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log.gx110-os121-1600x1200x120OK

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Not good (openSUSE 12.2):
glamor-0.4.1-2.2.2
kernel-desktop-3.4.47-2.38
libdrm2-2.4.33-2.47.33-2.3.2
libdrm_intel1-2.4.33-2.47.33-2.3.2
(no Plymouth)
xf86-video-intel-2.20.3-1.8.1
xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-2.9.1-22.1.2
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.12.3-1.9.1 (server 1.12.3)

highest (& initial) video mode available according to xrandr and krandrtray: 
1280x1024

PreferredMode is apparently ignored.

vga=8121 on cmdline works as expected on the vttys even after X is terminated.

http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log.gx110-os122-bad1280x1024


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Awful (openSUSE 13.1 Beta 1):
glamor-0.5.1-1.1
intel-gpu-tools-1.3-4.4
kernel-desktop-3.11.1-1
libdrm2-2.4.46-2.1
libdrm-intel1-2.4.46-2.1
(no Plymouth)
xf86-video-intel-2.99.902-1.1
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.14.3-1.1 (server 1.14.3)

PreferredMode is apparently ignored.

highest (& initial) video mode available according to xrandr and krandrtray: 
1280x1024

vttys are stable only as long as X never started, regardless whether video= 
and/or vga= are present on cmdline. Only way I've found so far to make them 
work reliably again once X is started is to reboot. With various combinations 
of X running or not and video= and/or vga= used, vttys get scrambled in 
various ways (font mismatched to row and/or column counts of active mode).
While X is running but a vtty is active, X/KDE3 may abort spontaneously.

http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log.gx110-os131b1-0vga0video-1280x1024maxBAD
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log.gx110-os131b1-1vga1video-1280x1024maxBAD

I was unable to find a bug matching this behavior on 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/. Comments?
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