[no EDID] intel stuck in 1024x768

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/02/10 12:41 (GMT-0500) Adam Jackson composed:

> On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>>  Can someone look at http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/xorg.0.log-gx260-i845G-os114rc1-1024x768x096 and tell me what in there actually tells me which video driver got used (via auto-configure/no mention of Intel/VESA/FBDEV in xorg.conf)? The Intel driver is mentioned, but afterward, so are FBDEV and VESA.
>
> [   979.729] (**) FBDEV(0): claimed PCI slot 0 at 0:2:0
>
> Which is a little weird, the Intel probe code should have run first.  So
> presumably, it did, and just didn't bind to the device for some reason.
>
>>  Do I need a device section specifying intel for server 1.9.3 to give what I need instead of XGA when there is no valid EDID? I would think monitor specs I provided to be sufficient.
>
> They would, except the fbdev driver can't set arbitrary modes.  It can only
> set things that the kernel already claims to support.

I filed https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671140 but, does this 
belong in bugs.freedesktop.org/? Can something else be done to force use of 
all hardware supported modes that used to work?
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