Bug 31295

Summary: Can't change fbcon resolution via kernel command line
Product: xorg Reporter: Andrew Randrianasulu <randrik>
Component: Driver/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: git   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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dmesg after booting with just video=VGA-1:800x600 none

Description Andrew Randrianasulu 2010-11-01 07:43:07 UTC 
Using kernel nouveau-2.6 up to 

commit 81a3e05ce554607d241e6c84d2468182b4eb35da
Author: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Date:   Thu Oct 28 23:10:29 2010 +0200

    drm/nouveau: Fix sleep while atomic in nouveau_bo_fence().


i can't change output resolution for fbcon. It always come up with 1280x1024x32 initial size, but then X succesfully  use it's part of VRAM. But fbcon buffer currently marked as pinned in VRAM, so on low-vram card like 16Mb TNT2 I run out of memory too fast.

Logs will follow, kernel command line as shown by cat /proc/cmdline:

BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.36-nuvo ro root=1601 nocd nopcmcia max_loop=255 nohotplug vt.default_utf8=0 video=VGA-1:800x600-16@85
Comment 1 Andrew Randrianasulu 2010-11-01 07:44:24 UTC 
Created attachment 39952 [details]
dmesg
Comment 2 Andrew Randrianasulu 2010-11-01 07:47:00 UTC 
cat /sys/class/drm/card0-VGA-1/modes 
1280x1024
1024x768
1024x768
1024x768
1024x768
832x624
800x600
800x600
800x600
800x600
800x600
640x480
640x480
640x480
640x480
640x480
720x400
720x400

Hm, a bit more informative lines can be helpful here ... for example, color depth and/or vertical refresh rates .....
Comment 3 Andrew Randrianasulu 2010-11-01 07:50:06 UTC 
Created attachment 39953 [details]
.config

I have fbcon, nouveau, drm  compiled as modules, and my system starts up with old VGA text mode, then  during udev startup  nouveau module will be auto-loaded.
Comment 4 Andrew Randrianasulu 2010-11-01 09:20:19 UTC 
Created attachment 39959 [details]
dmesg after booting with just video=VGA-1:800x600
Comment 5 Ilia Mirkin 2013-08-18 18:10:30 UTC 
It appears that this bug report has laid dormant for quite a while. Sorry we haven't gotten to it. Since we fix bugs all the time, chances are pretty good that your issue has been fixed with the latest software. Please give it a shot. (Linux kernel 3.10.7, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.9, mesa 9.1.6, or their git versions.) If upgrading to the latest isn't an option for you, your distro's bugzilla is probably the right destination for your bug report.

In an effort to clean up our bug list, we're pre-emptively closing all bugs that haven't seen updates since 2011. If the original issue remains, please make sure to provide fresh info, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ for what we need to see, and re-open this one.

Thanks,

The Nouveau Team

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