Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:32:35 +0100
From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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       Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: intel kms "Failed to allocate space for kernel memory manager"
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:53:49AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On the contrary, I think we have way too many options and configuration 
> possibilities.  The more we have, the more likely some combination of them 
> will be broken.

You need to be able to fix wrong data coming from the bios or other roms.


> That said, modes are generally pretty easy to handle, so users can provide 
> them through xrandr and xorg.conf; I don't see that changing.

The intel driver ignores modelines if a bios mode is present, at least
for lvds.  Check i830_lvds_mode_fixup.

  OG.
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