On 2010-06-04 15:22 +0200, Kent West wrote: > On 06/03/2010 04:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2010-06-03 22:49 +0200, Kent West wrote: >> >> >>> When I boot 2.6.32 using grub2, my display is only in the top left >>> quadrant of my monitor, leaving a huge unusable border around the >>> right and bottom of my viewable area, and leaving my viewable area too >>> small to be very usable. It's like the resolution is locked at >>> something small, like 320x180, and pushed into the upper left corner >>> of the monitor. (xdpyinfo within X reports: >>> screen #0: >>> dimensions: 720x576 pixels (191x152 millimeters) >>> resolution: 96x96 dots per inch >>> depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 >>> >>> (but this problem does not only affect X, which I'm starting manually >>> with "startx"; it begins in the console mode just after the grub menu >>> and about 20-30 seconds of black screen, with a text image finally >>> appearing mid-boot. >>> >> This happens when udev starts and loads the nouveau module, switching to >> graphics mode. Text mode appears to be b0rked with your card/monitor. >> >> >>> [ 6.338804] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:06.0: allocated 1280x1024 fb: 0x49000, >>> bo efa1a000 >>> >> This looks normal, I get something similar. >> >> >>> [ 6.486533] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x36 >>> >> But this is bad, it should have been 160x64. The 90x36 match the >> xdpyinfo output, though. >> >> > > What do these numbers (90x36 & 160x64) mean, and how do you see those > in the snippet of xdpyinfo's output that I included above?
They mean columns * rows, and the default font has a size of 8x16, so 90*8 = 720 and 36*16 = 576 (see the dimensions line in xdpyinfo). > And, is there anyway I can tell udev to override that setting so that > I could maybe have a usable display? Not that I know of. The "video=…" parameter does not work for you, and I don't know any other. You should report a bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/. Choose product xorg and component Driver/nouveau. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq5yu80n....@turtle.gmx.de