Kevin Kofler wrote:
No, the X11 modesetting should also work. The old driver which used the BIOS for modesetting isn't used anymore, all current modesetting implementations, both the X11 one and the kernel one, do the work on their own.
I tried booting with i915.modeset=1 and X stopped at a white screen and went no further, locking up the system.
Then I booted without the line (and removing nomodeset) and got into an X session.
I ran gtf 1400 1050 60 and got a modeline.
Then, I ran
xrandr --newmode 1400x1050_60.00 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync
and the result was:
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color does not exist) Major opcode of failed request: 150 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 16 () Serial number of failed request: 17 Current serial number in output stream: 17
So, what gives?