[CALL FOR TESTERS] VESA High Resolution Console support from
DragonFly
Andre Guibert de Bruet
andy at siliconlandmark.com
Fri Jun 10 12:44:09 GMT 2005
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> ? ??, 08/06/2005 ? 17:29 -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet ?????:
>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
>>> ? ??, 08/06/2005 ? 14:56 -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet ?????:
>>>>
>>>> Let me guess... It's a laptop screen or an LCD panel?
>>>
>>> Yes, exactly, it is sony vzio z1.
>>>
>>> (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: Samsung LTN150P1-L02
>>> (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 1400x1050
>>> (II) RADEON(0): BIOS provided dividers will be used.
>>
>> Most laptop LCDs and cheaper desktop panels take a while (The dreaded
>> second or two) to switch resolutions. Try the patch with an external crt
>> monitor plugged in and display mirroring enabled to see the difference for
>> yourself (Or simply try it on a desktop with a radeon card and a crt).
>
> I have got a maximum waiting for switching from X to console (X screen
> disappeared very quick) - about 10 secs, probably it related to some
> disk activity, can syscon pages be swapped ?
Wow. 10 seconds goes beyond the limits of reasonable.
I would not expect to see syscons pages being swapped, even under extreme
memory pressure. How much memory is available in this system? Could you
make a recent boot -v (With the patch) and the kernel config available?
Andy
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