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Gregoire
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:48 pm    Post subject: Ivy Bridge's HD4000 console with KMS and monitor off ? Reply with quote

Hello,

I have my system working very well if I boot with my monitor powered on, I got a nice 2560x1600 console :)

My problem is when the monitor isn't powered at boot...

Is there a way to have the same perfect console (I love console) in both case (on/off) at boot ?

Thank you very much.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can unload and reload i915 module after turning on monitor:

for file in /sys/class/vtconsole/*; do echo 0 > $file/bind; done
rmmod i915
sleep 1
modprobe i915
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, I'll rebuild it as a module and try.
I was hoping for a way to take a "working boot" and a way to save the guessed parameters and use those for any boot.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's no "guessing", the driver is reading the display's EDID. A deactivated display can't send the EDID, so the driver can't know what to do. Hmm, there's one idea - save the EDID to a file, then provide that to the driver. I don't know how exactly to do this, but that's what google is for :)
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My edid can be read from /sys/class/drm/card0-DP-1/edid and using parse-edid from http://www.polypux.org/projects/read-edid/ I get :
Code:

parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.

        # EDID version 1 revision 4
Section "Monitor"
        # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fc
        Identifier "DELL 3008WFP"
        VendorName "DEL"
        ModelName "DELL 3008WFP"
        # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fc
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
        HorizSync 29-113
        VertRefresh 49-86
        # Max dot clock (video bandwidth) 280 MHz
        # DPMS capabilities: Active off:yes  Suspend:no  Standby:no

        Mode    "2560x1600"     # vfreq 59.860Hz, hfreq 98.529kHz
                DotClock        268.000000
                HTimings        2560 2608 2640 2720
                VTimings        1600 1603 1609 1646
                Flags   "+HSync" "+VSync"
        EndMode
        # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fc
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
EndSection

And maybe drm: allow loading an EDID as firmware to override broken monitor could solve my problem.
Thanks google and Gusar for the idea :)
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how about force resolution via kernel command line:
video=DP-1:2560x1600-60e
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I will try it (I have modified in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg this entry :
Code:

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.2-gentoo video=DP-1:2560x1600-60e root=/dev/sda3 ro


And if that is working I then have to add something ??? to /etc/default/grub :
Code:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""


Thank you very much !
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